Hermaphrodites and hamsters can’t be a good combination. This story is a harbringer of something awful.

Feel free to point out a single one of them that indicates that gentrification requires any municipality to provide an area with anything that isn’t already there.

You realize the article’s about a coffee shop, right?

If the businesses came later, what prompted the housing prices to skyrocket?

You’re assuming that the recipient of the training and/or loan will complete the training and use their skills and/or repay the loan.

They say you can never win an argument on the internet but you, Sir, are absolutely kicking ass.

Since when do municipalities owe you a coffee shop?

No offense, but you haven’t offered a true solution to anything. The three plans you mentioned are things that we’ve tried to do for decades. They have not worked. If they’d worked, we would not be having this discussion to begin with.

But you’re arguing that the community has to perpetually cater to those on welfare. Why would anyone want that? If you owned property in that area, why would you not want its value to increase?

I think what eliminates institutional racism is admitting that’s real and passing effective legislation.

Exactly. All three of those “solutions” are things we’ve tried for decades.

If “government intervention” could solve the problem, it would have been solved long ago. That’s not a solution.

There’s nothing wrong with charity. It’s a good thing.

“I owned a house in an area that was gentrified and it’s value went up 25% in four years.”

A little bit. The evidence that the prosecution complained about was all circumstantial and didn’t really make a big difference, at least to me.

Whether a ISP is a “common carrier” has nothing to do with having a monopoly at all.

The same was true for phone lines. Ma Bell installed the infrastructure to get one phone line into every house/apartment.

If it’s a true monopoly, that’s what anti-trust laws are for. Competitors could sue to break up the bigger providers, the same way that telephone companies were broken up back when the Baby Bells came to be.

You should look at the numbers regarding “cord cutting,” educate yourself, go fuck your uncle again, then shut up for the day, son.

I don’t think any consumers want to be gouged. I think that providers are going to do it anyway and consumers aren’t going to get a choice.