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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.
HTML 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
HTML 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
HTML 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
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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:
HTML https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/messy-electrical-utility-cables-urban-street-buildings-background-street-rocinha-favela-shanty-town-172637483.jpg
In gentrified neighbourhoods the wires are usually out of sight:
HTML https://citylimits.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/appin2-771x440.png
We are supposed to be supporting the non-gentrified aesthetic!
HTML 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]
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Re: Anti-gentrification
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 6, 2024, 7:15 pm
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Our enemies raise our morale for us:
HTML 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:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks#Locations
[quote]South Africa: 54[161][/quote]
so we still have work to do.)
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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:
HTML 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]
HTML 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]
HTML https://www.christravelblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/yuexiu-park-sacred-heart-cathedral-china-layover-in-guangzhou-what-to-do-in-4-8-hours-IMG_2636.jpg[/img]
HTML 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
Société des Missions Étrangères 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 François Zéphirin
Guillemin, M.E.P. (明稽章), the first vicar
apostolic of Guangdong, oversaw the construction project. A
French architect from Nancy, Léon 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]
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