It's not true that people would kill to lose their homes and their businesses to astronomical increases in property value that force them to move away from their community. When you buy a house and think "this is my home, I will live and grow old here," when you plant a garden, build your own deck, start a small business, grow a network over decades of investing time and love into your neighborhood, you don't say, "Hey, I'm being displaced; my income will no longer pay the taxes on this property I've owned for twenty years, and I'm going to have to tear out all my roots and start again some place new. But WOW it's so great how much my property value went up! That's swell! Thank You Invisible Hand of the Market, May I have another?"
No, I don't agree that this is a problem other places would love to have. It's a real, heartbreaking issue that people care deeply about. A lot of people are terrified of losing everything they made with their own two hands.
That said, yes the Robo Call sounds like it was clumsy. It's probably easy to forget this isn't on everyone's minds.
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No, not true
Date: 2014-02-05 02:56 am (UTC)No, I don't agree that this is a problem other places would love to have. It's a real, heartbreaking issue that people care deeply about. A lot of people are terrified of losing everything they made with their own two hands.
That said, yes the Robo Call sounds like it was clumsy. It's probably easy to forget this isn't on everyone's minds.