Startups Born of Flint’s Water Crisis
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But lets be honest here - these businesses havent finished the job. We can celebrate "capitalist innovation" starting to attempt to address a problem functioning government would have had fixed a decade ago.
We need to make a choice - either quit pretending that government can only work when it is in someone's pocket, or we can become a third world country. We need to understand it as an active choice.
To paint this as racism is either dishonesty or ignorance.
Many of the neighborhoods with this problem have been areas of severe deindustrialization. When a city like Flint shrinks because the main factory shuts down, they no longer have the tax revenue to support their own infrastructure, let alone build new infrastructure. They are stuck in a slow decay, and would need Federal assistance to get out.