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@petergleick This sort of mentality pushes my buttons like nothing else.

Years ago, a co-worker convinced me to attend a 1000 cups meeting, some kind of informal networking event for business butts to stink up a room together. At the meeting I attended, the presenter offered a few slides on what could be done to "attract talent" to our city; how to compete with other cities to get Ivy Leaguers and Silicon Valley emigres to choose us.

By the end of the talk I was aquiver with frustration - I'm like: "This city has one of the worst education departments in the country: there are literally thousands upon thousands of talented children who we collectively abandon every single effing year, and you're talking about how we can gentrify more neighborhoods to get more people who are already rich and successful to choose us?" Then I left.

Makes me sick.