Comments On: The City of Utopias by Charles Mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/15/the-city-of-utopias Comments On: The City of Utopias by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]> Posted by treacle]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:07:38 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]>
I definitely should have put "talent" in quotation marks. I'm skeptical that there are many rich people (obviously the only people who matter to this dipshit) left in Detroit, and those who are left are surely already living in gated community enclaves so they don't have to deal with the rabble.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:28:44 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]>
For years Detroit has been a smoldering void in the center of a large and diverse metropolitan area, but for the last couple decades a lot of younger, middle-class people have been fleeing the suburbs for the city. "I don't have the facts to back this up" but I would guess that a large part of Detroit's revival owes itself to these people.

It also made me LOL because Belle Isle is accessible to Detroit by a half-mile long bridge.
Posted by blip]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:04:22 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]> Posted by Stumphaven]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:51:22 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]>
(Cuz, the first thing that'll happen is the US Govt will call bullshit on that whole "seceding" thing, swoop troops in to retake the island, and then hand possession of it back over to the city of Detroit again -- which will now have $1 billion in it's coffers to use in developing it properly!)
Posted by Timrrr]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:29:08 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]>
Mogk adds that such a scenario would make the island "a drain of talent and resources" at the expense of Detroit.


Serious question. How much talent and resources does Detroit have left at this point?
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:16:48 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]>
As for the Belle Isle thing, I think it would be a wonderful thing to behold in theory (mostly because I think it would be a dismal failure that would be propped up by billionaires out of embarrassment) but I object to selling off Belle Isle. Can't they do it somewhere in the south where nobody cares?

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:52:33 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]> Posted by a tidy pachyderm]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:51:08 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]>
What are they trying to say? If the tax is a tax on improvements not the selling price of the land that is a Georgist tax scheme. Georgism was historically a progressive movement.. I would think Mudede would welcome the return of 19th century utopianism.
Posted by artful_bodger]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:21:50 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]> Posted by Fistique]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:18:51 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]> Posted by Kumquat]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:09:57 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]> Posted by siduri]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:48:18 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]>
Or are they going to be the "striving immigrants and starving artists" who the wealthy fuck citizens can spit upon, all the while telling them with just a little more hard work and bootstrappiness they can be wealthy fuck citizens too?

I hope they form their little nation and it gets hit by a massive natural disaster and they all perish. Fuck them all.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:04:03 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]> Posted by wingedkat]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:53:32 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: The City of Utopias]]> Sounds like one of the original US colonies, before 1913 came around and they implemented an income tax. Before then all government was funded by property taxes.

Maybe they could also have indentured servants...people who work the land for others, to eventually own it.
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:41:05 -0800 The Stranger