system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
At least they're not moving out rural and taking over old Farms

Oh wait that's exactly what they're doing and turning that good farm ground into rural suburban housing developments
gpt
That's what I wish people understood. White flight historically was just suburbanization. The thing is basically only wealthier white people could do it. It's a racial issue due to that imbalance, but all of the actual material problems are related to urbanism.

And *actual gentrification* is the same thing but flipped. Instead of buying up cheap farmland, it's buying up cheap urban neighborhoods.

**DONT GET ME WRONG** upzoning is not a bad thing, and is literally improving, but there needs to be a middle ground between "tear up the farms and drive 10 miles to a parking lot that use to be a neighborhood", and "raise rents to force everyone out, tear down the duplex houses, and put a luxury apartment on the spot".