Doug Henwood wrote:
>> Fuck, I'm not against eminent domain for real public improvement
>> purposes, but I think those should be narrowly defined. Awful things
>> have gone on in the name of urban planning; we've just heard some
>> examples from LA, and I know of plenty from NYC and New Haven (the
>> laboratory for urban renewal). There's a real prob with eminent
>> domain as it's actually practiced, and it's not just right-wing
>> cynics playing on crude populist sentiments.
>
Exactly, and note that "improvement" in eminent domain cases is often
synonymous with profit-making ability. Yet who is to say that store A,
making 2X profit is better than store B, making X profit?
It seems to me that the survival of the most profitable is not a desirable principle.
Joanna
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