We should all care to some extent, once parasites kill off the host, they need to find a new place to live in order to survive.....
It took me awhile to understand this. This already happened to some extent to Rockford, and to Peoria.
Its pretty simple, the teachers union in Chicago for example, they average around 60-70k/ year plus a benefit/retirement package that someone in the private sector would have to save at least a couple million in order to to retire the same way..... So the cities like Chicago have 2 choices which both end up killing off the host, either you raise taxes in order to keep going down the same path and paying these teachers ridiculous wages, in which case businesses leave for a more friendly environment, or you try to reign them in and the teachers unions inevitably choose layoffs over pay cuts in which case you get a garbage school system, inevitably both things happen together...... And where do these public sector union ass holes go once they get laid off since the other city can no longer afford them? Places like Peoria, or else more conservative states where they can still hire teachers cause they can afford it, cause they havent allowed them to take control quite yet....... but then too many of these beaurecrats move to the new host city and the cycle just repeats itself...... Mean while, there really is no hope for a place like Detroit anymore, once you kill the goose that was laying the golden egg, it is gone forever, there is NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND, who would move a business into that scenario, so places like that end up being gone forever, there is a point of no return, lawlessness combined with bureacrats, and parasites hits critical mass, and there is simply no way to turn it around. Chicago is fast approaching that area.....
The difference between Detroit and Chicago is that Detroit had only one major industry. Peoria is actually more like Detroit. If we lose CAT, it's over. We made the grave mistake of not caring what happens north of I-80. I-80 is the unofficial start of Chicagoland, if you are not from Illinois. Now, we have some of their thugs, and crime has gone up. It is like section8. I had this happen to me some years ago. One section8 home happened in our neighborhood, then two, then four. Long story short, the neighborhood turned into just a hood. Negative elements have to be treated proactively. We can fight them over there, or we can fight them over here.
There is a cascading effect, if Chicago loses the financial industry its lights out for the rest of Chicago, it may not solely be about one company, and it may be a different set of circumstances facing them than detroit, but given the way modern finance works, there is just as much of an incentive for them to leave as detroit ever had, as there really is no reason to live in Chicago anymore. I still go back and visit one of the many places i grew up, and a couple years ago, i went back to an area which was a fairly affluent neighborhood when i was growing up, and when i went back it had just turned into a total piece of shit. So I asked a friend what the f**k happened here? Apparently the government got the brilliant idea that if they moved a bunch of section 8 housing (different name in canada) into nice neighborhoods, the people who were living in the section 8 housing would somehow be inspired through the powers of osmosis to want to work hard and make money like everyone else...... So inevitably it all went to shit, in one of the dumbest moves i have ever heard of.... What fucking incentive does a person have to work hard if they can live in a nice neighborhood and not pay for it?
Poverty is a culture. It is a disease. It took me working and living with my friends in the corn before I fully realized this. There is no fixing an impoverished mind or attitude. Those who were born into that environment will get out if they find themselves different from the others. The rest will not. The problem is government does not see this yet. They do not see that personal attitude is not changed by geographic location.