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| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: antihellenistic Date: July 3, 2024, 7:31 am | |
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| Western Gentrification, Competitive, and Capitalistic societies | |
| do not end the economic disparity and poverty problem, it | |
| enhances further to the worst phase. The gentrification society | |
| prefers and only is achieved and enjoyed by high-skilled | |
| workers. The low-skilled workers cannot have it, because they | |
| have few salaries, so, they lack financial money | |
| [quote]As Stiglitz notes, competition is less than perfect, | |
| creating distortions in pay and contribution based on | |
| extraordinary market transitions, market externalities, tax | |
| policy, monopoly behavior, and such extra-market factors as | |
| exploitation and discrimination. Most appear to have become | |
| accentuated since the 1970s with the emergence of contemporary | |
| globalization. | |
| ... | |
| With its comparatively greater presence in global cities (r = | |
| .80, signif @ .01), and consistent with its role in providing | |
| competitive advantage in the global economy, the agglomeration | |
| of innovation resources bears heavily on the endogenous | |
| metropolitan culture, economic character, and heterogeneous | |
| production mix. That is, in addition to agglomeration nurturing | |
| innovation and the entrepreneurial desires of its matrix of | |
| contributing inventors and professionals, it also has impact on | |
| the overall metropolitan area, most particularly on economic | |
| inequality (Flaherty & Rogowski, 2021). While this may happen | |
| through multiple pathways, research brings to the surface two | |
| avenues of potential occurrence | |
| In the case of indirect pathway impacts, innovation | |
| agglomeration appears to contribute to inequality through its | |
| polarizing effects on a global city's employment-structure. | |
| Specifically, Fig. 1 shows this collateral effect on overall | |
| metropolitan employment to involve (1) the seeding of a | |
| concentration of highly-educated, high-income, skill-based, | |
| professional upper-middle-class employees (r = .67, signif @ | |
| .01), while simultaneously (2) deflating demand for | |
| manufacturing-oriented middle-class workers (r = − .64, | |
| signif @ .01), and (3) nominally stimulating employment | |
| opportunity for low-wage workers (r = .40, signif @.01). To be | |
| discussed in the inequality section below, this polarizing | |
| effect on MSA employment structure leads to heightened | |
| inequality, both overall and for income disparities, even | |
| though overall metropolitan poverty levels may remain | |
| unaffected. | |
| ... | |
| In the case of a direct pathway effect of innovation | |
| agglomeration on inequality, Fig. 1 indicates this mediating | |
| variable to be significantly correlated with overall inequality | |
| as well as the three disparity ratios (i. e., for Gini, r = | |
| .45; for the 90�10 ratio, r = .81; for the 99�50 ratio, r = .66; | |
| for the 95�20 ratio, r = .43; all significant at the .01 level). | |
| Throwing light on these direct associations, some researchers | |
| argue that, by virtue of an urban economy skewed by | |
| innovation-sector employment, there may be a greater | |
| socio-cultural appreciation in global cities for intellectual | |
| property and �technology entrepreneurship�, potential new | |
| enterprise frontiers, and high-tech worker importance (Liu & | |
| Parilla, 2019). | |
| Benner and Feng (2020) argue further that such preferential | |
| appreciation for innovation resources encourages acceptance of | |
| an edict to �move fast and break things,� that willfully | |
| creates a �pattern of generating poverty jobs.� Compounding | |
| this insensitivity or disregard for socioeconomic consequences | |
| is a �credentialist prejudice� defined by Sandel (2020) as a | |
| �disdain for the less educated� workforce. In short, it might | |
| be that many global-city inhabitants (including public | |
| policymakers) appear more enamored with and supportive of their | |
| MSA's creative scenes and innovation ethic than they may be | |
| sympathetic with the plights of those peripheralized in | |
| traditional industrial and service employment. [/quote] | |
| Source : | |
| Boschken, H. L. (2022). Income inequality and the imprint of | |
| globalization on U.S. metropolitan areas. Cities, 121, | |
| 103503�103503. | |
| https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103503 | |
| Hitler' solution : | |
| [quote]It is a characteristic of our materialistic epoch that | |
| our scientific education shows a growing emphasis on what is | |
| real and practical: such subjects, for instance, as applied | |
| mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. Of course they are | |
| necessary in an age that is dominated by industrial technology | |
| and chemistry, and where everyday life shows at least the | |
| external manifestations of these. But it is a perilous thing to | |
| base the general culture of a nation on the knowledge of these | |
| subjects. On the contrary, that general culture ought always to | |
| be directed towards ideals. - Adolf Hitler[/quote] | |
| Sumber : | |
| Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" (Part 2) page 41 - 42 | |
| https://archive.org/details/AdolfHitlersmeinKampfpart2/page/n41/mode/2up | |
| [quote]�Industrialization has deprived the individual of all | |
| liberty, placed him in thrall to capital and the machine. The | |
| state is not the organization for self-rule by free individuals | |
| who call themselves citizens, but the central organization for | |
| the mills of labor growing out of industrialization, in which | |
| any independence or individualism is ground to dust. This is | |
| most crudely evident in the Bolshevik state, with its state | |
| capitalism. | |
| �But if we realize our social economy exactly as we discussed | |
| more than once, we will come to liberate the individual from the | |
| domination of capital and all its institutions. To begin with, | |
| labor will seize possession of capital. But what is ethically | |
| most significant is the following: when the purchasing power of | |
| wages increases�when, as you say, it might even double�the | |
| initial effect will be that production will have to increase, | |
| since the demand will be greater. But next comes the great era | |
| of increasing personal gratification, with the result that the | |
| worker will still earn a sufficiency if, instead of working | |
| eight hours a day, he puts in only seven or even six. | |
| �This moment signifies the rebirth of individuality, of the | |
| possibility of living for oneself outside the hours that serve | |
| material needs, and of devoting oneself to hobbies, cultural | |
| interests, art, science, life in general, and the family. | |
| �To this extent, then, socialism�our socialism�leads back to | |
| individuality, and with it to the strongest impetus to a | |
| personal, racially defined, and altogether universal human | |
| evolution.� | |
| ... | |
| �The World War had as one of its consequences that, wherever | |
| capitalism reigns, America has supremacy. And since America | |
| suffers from industrial overproduction, it will exploit this | |
| supremacy to dispose of its overproduction. That concerns | |
| everyone�Germany as well as France, England as well as South | |
| America, China, and Japan. Only where capitalism has been | |
| broken, abolished, replaced by something new does America�s | |
| power stop. | |
| �Herein lies our greatest mission and at the same time our best | |
| chance! Here is the bedrock where we may cast anchor. From there | |
| an anti-industrial world can be erected.� - Adolf Hitler[/quote] | |
| Sumber : | |
| Hitler - Memoirs Of A Confidant by Otto Wagener page 148, 149, | |
| 160 | |
| https://archive.org/details/wagenerhitlermemoirsofaconfidant/page/n177/mode/2up | |
| [quote]As far as possible, one must avoid ruining landscapes | |
| with networks of high-tension wires, telpher railways and | |
| machines of that sort. I'm in favour of roads, when needs | |
| must�but what's uglier than a funicular? - Adolf Hitler, 9th | |
| February 1942, midday SPECIAL GUEST: SPEER The farce of | |
| gas-masks�The economics of the cults� Obersalzberg.[/quote] | |
| Source : | |
| Hitler, Adolf � Table Talk page 306 | |
| #Post#: 26927-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 3, 2024, 10:54 am | |
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| [quote]one must avoid ruining landscapes with networks of | |
| high-tension wires[/quote] | |
| Hitler is talking about rural landscapes. In cities (which is | |
| where gentrification occurs), it is in non-gentrified areas | |
| where wires are typically above ground: | |
| https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/messy-electrical-utility-cables-urban-street-bu… | |
| In gentrified neighbourhoods the wires are usually out of sight: | |
| https://citylimits.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/appin2-771x440.png | |
| We are supposed to be supporting the non-gentrified aesthetic! | |
| https://www.atomic-ranch.com/architecture-design/what-is-brutalist-architecture/ | |
| [quote]Brutalism celebrates authenticity. Water tanks, support | |
| elements and electrical towers are left visible instead of | |
| concealed behind closed doors.[/quote] | |
| #Post#: 28147-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 6, 2024, 7:15 pm | |
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| Our enemies raise our morale for us: | |
| https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2024/10/06/180222/ | |
| [quote]Hello USA and Europe. In case you were wondering what | |
| awaits all nations once they are finally overrun by the Third | |
| World...here is a short walk through of Johannesburg, South | |
| Africa. This is the street next to the Carlton Center, | |
| previously the most prestigious and wealthy part of the city. | |
| Video taken September 2024.[/quote] | |
| Looks good to me! Not one Starbucks* in sight! :) | |
| (* Actually, there are still 54 Starbucks in South Africa: | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks#Locations | |
| [quote]South Africa: 54[161][/quote] | |
| so we still have work to do.) | |
| #Post#: 31551-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Anti-gentrification | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 5, 2025, 2:00 am | |
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| "New China" soon to bulldoze one of the few remaining | |
| non-gentrified districts: | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo14gDswZeg | |
| Woke comments: | |
| [quote]people who moved into highrises along highway corridors | |
| in the new developments, admit to me they're lonely and | |
| depressed. I've been in China since 2010 and spoken to them. The | |
| old men say before they used to play checkers on the street, now | |
| they sit on the sofa and wait for their son to come | |
| home.[/quote] | |
| [quote]Shipai village looks very cozy in all its | |
| grimyness[/quote] | |
| [quote]I want to live there :D[/quote] | |
| [quote]I say that's a nice place for people to live together. | |
| I'd visit Guangzhou just to go there. the rest of the city is | |
| like every other city: a place to exist but not to live[/quote] | |
| [quote]Its a vibrant community why would China demolish it ? | |
| Makes no sense ! Its Chinese heritage ![/quote] | |
| Because "New China" is the anti-China. It is all about futurism | |
| when dealing with local neighbourhoods: | |
| [img width=1280 | |
| height=960] | |
| https://www.ahstatic.com/photos/6318_ho_00_p_2048x1536.jpg[/img] | |
| but all about preservation when dealing with Western colonial | |
| neighbourhoods, which actually deserve bulldozing but which have | |
| zero chance of being bulldozed under Eurocentrist Xi: | |
| [img width=1280 | |
| height=803] | |
| https://www.christravelblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/yuexiu-park-sacred-h… | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Heart_Cathedral_(Guangzhou) | |
| [quote]The site of the cathedral was originally the residence of | |
| the Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces in the Qing | |
| dynasty. During the Second Opium War, the residence was | |
| completely destroyed and Viceroy Ye Mingchen was captured by the | |
| British.[citation needed] | |
| Based on the terms of an imperial edict issued by the Daoguang | |
| Emperor in February 1846, which promised compensation for | |
| churches destroyed and properties taken from the mission, the | |
| Soci�t� des Missions �trang�res de Paris obtained the site by | |
| signing an agreement with the Qing government on January 25, | |
| 1861. In his decree of approval, the Xianfeng Emperor wrote | |
| "from now on, war should be stopped and peace be sincerely kept | |
| forever".[citation needed] | |
| With financial support from Napoleon III and donations from | |
| French Catholics,[3] Bishop Philippe Fran�ois Z�phirin | |
| Guillemin, M.E.P. (明稽章), the first vicar | |
| apostolic of Guangdong, oversaw the construction project. A | |
| French architect from Nancy, L�on Vautrin,[4] was asked to | |
| design the cathedral, in collaboration with Charles Hyacinthe | |
| Humbert, also from Nancy. Humbert and another architect from | |
| Paris, Antoine Hermitte, who succeeds him at a later time, both | |
| travelled to China to oversee the construction of the | |
| cathedral.[5][/quote] | |
| https://smallimg.pngkey.com/png/small/129-1297667_clip-free-stock-collection-of… | |
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