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[–]Goathole0 points
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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.
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.
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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[–] Goathole 0 points 11 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.
[–] 8065028? 7 points 15 points 22 points (+22|-7) ago
That's easy, niggers and outsourcing
[–] SteelDusk 6 points 13 points 19 points (+19|-6) ago
Especially niggers.
[–] bikergang_accountant 1 point 6 points 7 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.
[–] AmaleksHairyAss 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Easy answers are rarely complete.
[–] harddrive 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
I heard crack is to blame.
[–] zcat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Here give a bit of clue to why it happened.
[–] py-von ago
That site was made in 2013. Like Detroit, it appears to have been abandoned.
[–] eqi397 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
simple explanation: government stole all the money from companies to fund its war machine
[–] [deleted] 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
[–] Slyboots 0 points 2 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
[–] lord_nougat 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
What are you talking about? Obama loved war!
[–] 1Sorry_SOB 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago
But goy, muh globalism!
[–] [deleted] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
[–] pitenius 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Packard Complex, owned by Studebaker. Closed in 1958.
[–] 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.
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For the uninitiated:
[–] lord_nougat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Detroit, I think.
[–] lord_nougat 1 point 4 points 5 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 point (+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?
[–] Lemon_Wrangler 0 points 3 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.
[–] Ywis 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
They get used for filming various things already.
[–] trumpolicious 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There are positives ... real estate is dirt cheap
[–] 011000110 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
You just have to supply your own defense force.
[–] trumpolicious 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
lmao