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"i mean what the fuck is a yuppie? "

It's u.

I ain't the one who pretends seeking to stop gentrification (but I'd like everyone to JUST FUCKING STOP, PERIOD)... you can't stop it as far if you won't stop the deeper system that makes it work. As a matter of fact most of my comments on the subject, over the years, was rather critical of anti-gentrification activism and especially its activists.

See... I grew up in a poor lumpen neighborhood among gangster rockers, first-gen punks, hobos and sex workers. Since then it was heavily tokenized and invaded by more upscale people from more comfy backgrounds. And many of those purportedly seeking to oppose gentrification are from these more privileged crowds, and very rarely from the older lumpen.

NA cities have always been engines of social mobility. Or any city developed by capital. As engines of leviathanesque production fueled by *classist* tensions, social mobility keeps rotating around as the city expands and undergoes formatting. My biggest problem actually with the current gentrification is aesthetics. Suburban normies got terrible taste and are willing to buy whatever cheap prefab shit that some low-grade moron is gonna offer them, so we end up with those mediocre sanitized residential condo areas filled with bed bugs. Actually these are copy-paste versions of any fucking generic condo development you'll have all across the developed, industrial world.

So since the people living in these places rely heavily on escapism as their living areas are secluded borefests (they just won't admit the obvious), that'll mean an extensive reliance on consumer entertainment systems, as well as travel and tourism industries, including getting one or two residences in the countryside, all of which is causing exponential pollution and devastation of ecosystems...

Gentrification is nothing else but mid-layer capitalism, the social mobility and struggles that are in constant flux in the imagined bell curve between the "rich" and "poor". And that's a THICC mid-layer. A huge, complicated, diverse, messy basin of interest or identity groups that seek their own share of the pie. It's so vast that you or your friends are likely to be involved in it. I think there's even street people involved in it. It's all over the place. It's capitalism! But also "society".

"Banking eunuchs" lolwut? Not sure, but I got insider intel that the banking cadre these days is very strangely into neo-New Age shit... and that is troublesome -or laughable- even if understandable. That may or may not be related to those conspiracy theories, but more likely is another cultist subset of group capital consolidation, that hints back at a well-known Order of the Solar Temple cult scandal within Hydro-Quebec that did the news back in the '90s. Very '80s gimmicks... and yea, '80s "nostalgia" has been trending among millenials. Maybe not relevant... Xianity's a dying dinosaur, so these may be palliative measures to cope with the spiritual void of the mass commodity society.