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[–] Goathole 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

It's hard to imagine that it was once booming with industry, technology and innovation. The ruins show that it was but leave no clue as to what happened.

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[–] 8065028? 7 points 15 points (+22|-7) ago 

That's easy, niggers and outsourcing

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[–] SteelDusk 6 points 13 points (+19|-6) ago 

Especially niggers.

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[–] bikergang_accountant 1 point 6 points (+7|-1) ago 

Unions. The total amount of manufacturing per square mile in the US is up in most places since the center of Detroit's heyday. Seems they exported their jobs to more than just china over that period.

Let unions run things and shit will get shut down eventually. Patents expire so even if excluding that methods change. Blank corporation may have some fixed comparative advantage that makes it so it can still get work despite a union but that advantage will slip away with time and all you will have is a shell. Apply it to enough businesses in the same area, you get Detroit. Detroit isn't a story, it's a thousand miniature stories of why a specific business didn't want to work there anymore that sums up in aggregate.

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[–] AmaleksHairyAss 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

Easy answers are rarely complete.

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[–] harddrive 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

I heard crack is to blame.

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[–] zcat 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Here give a bit of clue to why it happened.

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[–] py-von ago 

That site was made in 2013. Like Detroit, it appears to have been abandoned.

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[–] eqi397 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

simple explanation: government stole all the money from companies to fund its war machine

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[–] Slyboots 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Lies! Everyone knows robocop saved detroit. Too bad the democrats cut funding to the program, deemed too pro war apparently

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[–] lord_nougat 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

What are you talking about? Obama loved war!

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[–] 1Sorry_SOB 1 point 8 points (+9|-1) ago 

But goy, muh globalism!

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[–] pitenius 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Packard Complex, owned by Studebaker. Closed in 1958.

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[–] anonnynonny ago  (edited ago)

That is absolutely fascinating to zoom around in google map's 3d view. Highly detailed. You can even read the graffiti.

What a shithole.

Link

For the uninitiated:

  • Click & drag to pan around
  • Mouse wheel to zoom
  • Shift + Click & drag to tilt around the perspective.

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[–] lord_nougat 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Detroit, I think.

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[–] lord_nougat 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago 

Oh nice, looks like someone tidied the place up a bit for the picture!

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[–] 011000110 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

It's an infrastructure built for millions inhabited by thousands. With decades of corrupt local governments and insufficient tax revenue for for maintaining it, what would you expect to happen?

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[–] Lemon_Wrangler 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

The ruins of Detroit should be bought and turned into urban combat training centers. Then rent them to the government.

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[–] Ywis 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

They get used for filming various things already.

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[–] trumpolicious 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

There are positives ... real estate is dirt cheap

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[–] 011000110 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

You just have to supply your own defense force.

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[–] trumpolicious 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

lmao

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