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.

'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.

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

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."

The Tobin Tax.

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

"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.'

Stone Age

The Joads of Silicon Valley in Kiwis of Wrath

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

"One day this will all be outsourced."

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

A Globeburger - yummy!

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

'Do you not have a dictionary?'

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

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

'Dad's saying he controls my allowance because of something called the Commerce Clause.'