I gather intelligence everyehere I go. Im always looking and watching and questioning.
For the second time in August I just heard a credible rumor that a large employer in my own city may close a building where something like 10,000 people work.
Some of them may be laid iff but most will simply continue to work from home. Pretty much all major corporations seem to be finding white collar computer work can be done from anywhere, and they are eager to cut their real estate costs.
But of course where “downtown” in most major cities is concerned you have COVID, and more importantly you have rampant crime, vandalism, and depending on your city not infrequent riots.
All of these could EASILY reverse 3-4 decades of slow urban growth and improvement. They coukd wipe out decades of job growth in mere months, and THOSE JOBS MAY NOT COME BACK.
Gentrification creates jobs. You need cooks and servers and property managers and security guards and janitors and a host of other things. The latter depend on the former. And if all the people who used to come in every day for lunch or after work drinks move to exurbia or suburbia, who will keep you in business? Nobody. You will fail.
And once downtown looks like a ghost town, who wants to come there? The only people wandering around are those stuck there.
Rage is an easy emotion, and for short periods of time a gratifying one. But it is not easy to rebuild what can be destroyed quickly and thoroughly.
And rage is a particularly egregious and truly criminal emotion when what you are destroying does not even beling to you, as is the case with so many white punks who go into black neighborhoods, fuck thimgs up, then leave feeling like misunderstood saints.
Urban blacks, particularly, need to wake up and wake up FAST.