Players of Change: Gentrification of an Entire City (part 2)

November 29, 2023 | John Kugler |
November 29, 2023 | John Kugler |

(Chicago) This is a series that explains and gives information about changes that are happening in Chicago that are at times confusing, scary and hard to understand.

The city is adapting, just like it always has, since the first people used this place as a transient point for trading, hundreds of years ago when it was just a smelly onion …

Today that driver of change in our city is the tech industry which includes Google, that has resettled here to make Second City it’s new home …

With the help of Sterling Bay and other big developers, the playing field has been set, just gotta clean up da historical and institutional rigidity …

That place …

Where the infrastructure is safer …

Where there’s empty land …

Where there’s capacity for growth…

Where natural disasters are minimal …

Where there’s a vast cultural conglomeration of races, religions, ages and capabilities … both integrated and separated as needed …

That same rigidity that creates stability is what needs to assimilate into the new industrial power structures and needs …

And as the city has made its mark on the world by being the center of the United States in the past … that same point of origin now brings the digital revolution here … to once again be the center of the world as it was a hundred years ago …

Just like the change from the horse and carriage to motor vehicles, this transition is going to cause dislocation, job loss and lots of disruption …

… it will also create employment, innovation, opportunities and the need for services …

Hence the migrants, they’re here to service these people … in a new way of life … the only question now, is how that transformation happens.

Our analysis and experience with some of the players now leading our city, is that it’s going to be corrupt, messy and illegitimate.

As residents, we need to make sure that all people have equal opportunity to stay, work and thrive … and not be displaced by outsiders that are coming here to reap the benefits of generations of infrastructure and good living ….

Did I forget to mention … fresh clean water … HiHo

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Hump Day Night Ride: Gentrification of an Entire City it’s Here by

September 20th 2023

the replacements have arrived and will keep arriving … this is what we’ve read about in the books.

It’s happening right now.

And no, the Venezuelans ain’t The Replacements … they’re the workers for The Replacements …

We need to look at the demographic shifts in our city of who’s moving out and who’s moving in, including the voting patterns.

Two weeks ago, a study showed that whites elected Brandon Johnson as mayor of Chicago, not African-Americans or Hispanics.

We might be in a time of black flight …

Or rather categorize it as worker flight …

The concept is that the generational working class and working poor get pushed out of urbanized, industrial areas for their wealth, resources and infrastructure for people who can’t afford or are too scared to live in other urbanized areas.

We are now in the beginnings of the digital revolution, and the people who work in that digital revolution need a new place to live.

California ain’t making it,

the Southwest ain’t making it,

and the East Coast ain’t making it.

The only viable place for future growth of the digital revolution is the Midwest, right here.

We have fresh water, a complete infrastructure, no natural disasters, and we’re at about 50% capacity.

Whether it’s business or residential capacity, we can have growth up to about 10 to 20 million people in our region and our city.

That’s what’s going to happen in the next 50 years ….

For any new industrial shift, there must be cheap labor to work for The Replacements or, as the books called them, the capitalists, the petite bourgeoisie, and the technocrats.

Problem is Chicago is a union town, that is organized in its labor capacity, and that needs to be crushed.

What we’re going to experience now, in the next 10 to 20 years, is complete authoritarian austerity control of all aspects of life in our city, including the subjugation of organized labor, as we have just witnessed in the last city election.

It’ll happen by people who say they’re friendly to labor and friendly to native Chicagoans …

Yet they ain’t from Chicago, and never had a real job. Listen, Watch and See … HiHo

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