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228 sats \ 13 replies \ @Undisciplined 7 Mar \ on: Capital Formation Weekly #3 mostly_harmless

It's natural for people who felt that something was theirs -- that it reflected their values and their ethos and their preferred cultural practices, and provided a sheltered cul-de-sac where they built identities and maybe achieved some measure of social prominance -- would get salty as it oozes toward something else, as all living things do.

My parents are always complaining about how the town I grew up in (and where none of us currently live) is changing. That I almost always side with the change doesn't give them any pause. It was a very cool place and now it's a somewhat less cool place, but it's being enjoyed by far more people.

this is basically a single dude playing a geo-political game at the highest possible level, in an environment that's never existed before, and in a manner that's never been tried before.

I should pay more attention to this, it seems.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury OP 7 Mar

My parents are always complaining about how the town I grew up in (and where none of us currently live) is changing.

I spent so many years mourning the loss of where I grew up, which was in the country, but which changed in what sounds like a similar way to your town. I felt the loss deeply; and yet you can't hold to anything, least of all stuff like that.

It's a hard truth to come to terms with, though.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 7 Mar

Studying economics is what let me be happy for the changes, or rather for the larger number of people who now get to enjoy what only a smaller number used to.

Adapting to change is irritating, but if you have other-regarding preferences, you can accept that sometimes your losses are meaningful gains to others.

26 sats \ 10 replies \ @Bell_curve 8 Mar

What are the changes besides a larger population?

10 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Mar

The population is still small, but maybe 50% higher. I'm not sure.

The major change is that it's rich people moving into new fancy homes and it used to be a middle class community. There's also a less prominent development of low income multifamily housing.

You could add to that a hundred other seemingly innocuous changes that people in small towns freak out about.