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by rayiner 3147 days ago
Bankers also ride the subway not private shuttle busses. It’s a stupid thing to focus on but optics matter.
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I think the truly toxic thing is people not spending money in their communities. One of the things I pick up from anti-gentrification stories is that when new people move in, the existing shops lose customers. No-one goes to the corner store, they get food via an app or wait for a Whole Foods to open.

The (completely unintended) effect of this is that the existing community gets poorer, not richer, when rich people move in.