What is needed for Detroit to become thriving again?

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

pitiful

When I saw that you replied I thought you were going to say "identity politics"

 

[blackzeus]

America is good at leading, terrible at adapting. Detroit embodies this. After WWII we ate real good. We put food on a lot of other country's plates. Once they caught up we didn't know what the hell to do. That's what fukked us up.

That's not correct, what f*cked the manufacturing sector was outsourcing and greed of the top 1%. Had the top 1% kept it "All-American" instead of investing in China we would have never arrived to our current state. We only have our own greed to blame

 

[ⒶⓁⒾⒶⓈ]

For "those" people to be removed, forcibly if necessary All jokes aside, cities that are never coming back:

Detroit
Toledo
Gary
Cleveland
etc.

Those cities are forever f*cked unless illegals start to populate them and bring fresh blood to the area.

Those others are doomed but Detroit will be rejuvenated one day...the location is too advantageous..next to a border,a port between NY ,Toronto and Chicago plus the state of michigan itself is doing fine

 

[Waldo Geraldo Faldo]

Become Silicon Valley-East.

Provide massive incentives for tech companies to open hubs in Detroit.

Leverage UM, OSU, PENN, Northwestern, other eastern universities to establish a pipeline of talent into the city.

There is already a huge incentive for companies....the rent is cheap, next to nothing.

Yet, there is nothing sexy about the D. The homegrown talent would rather be somewhere else than here.

In a dream world we could be a great incubator for cross technologies with the automobile manufacturers and suppliers.

Except the automobile technology is way more static than dynamic because of all the regulations.

 

[Waldo Geraldo Faldo]

By the way, I admit not initially reading the article. reading it now and one thing that stuck out to me is that the decrease in automobile manufacturing is blamed on free trade? Particularly NAFTA in the 90's. For my more knowledgeable brehs, is this really true?

From my understanding the decline in auto manufacturing started in the 80s before NAFTA and it was due to shytty auto manufacturing of the US that couldn't compete with the more reliable and better constructed Asian automobiles. They simply couldn't compete with the Japanese in particular. Ford used to be termed "found on road dead" for a reason.

Though a lot of these modern US cars are nice. That Ford Fusion

Yeah, it started in the 80s but most of the poor manufacturing was partially due to the drug-filled times. Lots of drug addicts working on vehicles white collar/blue collar. Poor economic planning/policies helped too.

NAFTA really just dealt some fatal blows to tbe industry. When i was younger everybody knew someone that had a job at the plants. About time I got of age to work in the industry in the mid 2000s. That shyt was dried up.

 

[wire28]

how many of yall actually know whats going on in detroit right now?

none of them which makes this thread hilarious