I love outside of Gary Indiana, and yeah it can be dangerous if you look lost or like you have no purpose for being there, but there's also good working people just trying to eke out the same shit living we all are. I hear my mom and sisters say this kind of shit and it's just like. Sigh

Edit; for some fun examples look on any reddit thread about dangerous trips or some shit and people will constantly talk about how badass they were for driving through Gary or St Louis or some shit.

It's not a warzone mayos.

  • structuralize_this [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Gary, Indiana is a physical monument to the ramifications of surplus labor exploitation. It's a hallowed out husk of industrial decay caused by neoliberalism's outsourcing. Material conditions declined and exploitation increased as the power of labor collapsed. As material conditions decrease and central planning gives way, crime increases.

    The capitalists have zero incentive to rehabilitate Gary, so they won't. And the ramification to this, is that no resources are expended to improve Gary, Indiana because nobody there has any value to capital.

    Thus, Gary, Indiana is a "bad area".

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      Makes more sense than the explanation in World of Darkness, where a vampire mafia keeps Gary oppressed so they have a steady supply of people they can bite with nobody missing them.