Gentrification Scholar Mugs

Midtown Meta-Moment

"Tariffs love me...tariffs love me not..."

"Yuppies! There goes the hood!"

"You called me, boss?" "Yes, I overheard you talking to patrons about all the new planets we’ve found." "I want you to stop doing that." "At least until I’m done buying up as much of that real estate as I can. I don’t need any competitors driving up the prices." "Very bad man." "When the hipsters run out of cities to gentrify here, my properties on Gliese 581c are going to make a killing."

Manufacturing will take place in China...So what role does Europe have?...you borrow money to be the customer

"I can hear Brooklyn becoming played out."

'Enter, 'The Globoracy'.'

"I don't know why we try so hard to get the right answers. There isn't even a prize."

Cheap Labour Countries.

"Welcome to Randolph, Vermont. Don't even think of relocating here!"

Tonight's Lecture: Globalization. I've never worried about my job going overseas --- None of my jobs ever went anywhere.

'See, Jimmy, as the population grows too dense, the rats begin to brutalize each other...'

125% tariff in escalating trade war.... ...Mitch realizes that everything he ordered is made in China

Religious texts from heaven and hell find common ground...they are made in China.

Made in China.

"As I understand it, he has a whole other workshop in Hong Kong where they make all that electronic stuff."

"We call it, 'Green meadows' because that's what it was before we decided to build on it."

'It's worse than outsourcing. Instead of hiring foreign labor, they got bought out by foreign management.'

The Tobin Tax.

"I've got something in what used to be a decrepit, run-down, unfashionable area."

Worldcom falling on Atlas.

'Well, so much for our secluded beachfront property.'

'Take us to your leader. We want to discuss outsourcing possibilities.'

The Joads of Silicon Valley in Kiwis of Wrath

Holiday in Cambodia

"... but this is Emily Dickinson and that's a car alarm!"

Stone Age

"One day this will all be outsourced."

'I no longer sell lemonade. I'm a franchise outlet for a multi-national.'

A Globeburger - yummy!

You called me, boss? Yes. I overheard you talking to patrons about all the new planets we've found. I want you to stop doing that. At least until I'm done buying up as much of that real estate as I can. I don't need any competitors driving up the prices. Very bad man. When the hipsters run out of cities to gentrify here, my properties on Gliese 581c are going to make a killing.

'Nothing against you, but I'm thinking about going back for my master's.'

"The area has recently moved from being a dump to being an expensive dump."

'Do you not have a dictionary?'

"It was the cheapest way for us to cover the potholes."