(Part 3) Top products from r/Detroit

You might be interested in this book:

>Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity--in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.

>He advocates two major policy responses. The first is educational austerity. Government needs to sharply cut education funding to curb this wasteful rat race. The second is more vocational education, because practical skills are more socially valuable than teaching students how to outshine their peers.

This may not be what you're looking for but I'm a gearhead. I've read a number of pretty good books about the auto industry that center in and around Detroit:

1. Iacocca
   
   
2. The Delorean Story
   
   
3. Glory Days
   
   
4. All Corvettes Are Red
   

Super specific books like this one and the unofficial Pyrex one are awesome.

The Christmas tree at Campus Martius is pretty sweet at night. You can ice-skate as well. I have this book on the buildings. I have created my own tour based on that.

"The Detroit Almanac" the Free Press made for the tricentennial back in 2001

https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-Almanac-Peter-Gavrilovich/dp/0937247340

I can’t think of a store, but I would suggest something like this.

Crash Course by Paul Ingrassia gives a good account of the "carpocalypse" of 2008, specifically focusing on the bailouts of GM and Chrysler.

I feel like this statement should have a question mark at the end of it.

Fundamental analysis isn't some dark art. It's fucking arithmetic.

Read this book and this book It should take you less than a month to read both.

Origins of the Urban Crisis is pretty much the book you need to read if you want to understand the underpinnings of Detroit's fall in the 2nd half of the 20th century.

A good companion to that is Redevelopment and Race by June Manning Thomas.

https://www.amazon.com/Arsenal-Democracy-Detroit-Quest-America/dp/0547719280

Yeah lots of people do not know this about Detroit

If you ever get a chance, read One Summer by Bill Bryson, it takes a look at all the goings on in America during the summer of 1927. There are a lot of things that shaped this country highlighted, but the Ford $5 a day wage was part of it. At the time Ford had a 370% turnover rate and the $5 was an effort to keep employees on the lines as opposed to walking off when they got fed up.

The Media Monopoly

American Odyssey (1974) by Robert Conot

On the history of Jewish Detroit see:

Jewish Detroit (MI) (Images of America) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738519960/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_h6Q2Db94ZFG7P

Also:

The Jews of Detroit: From the Beginning 1762-1914
https://www.amazon.com/Jews-Detroit-Beginning-1762-1914/dp/0814318088

Next book will be Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler. If you finish that, we may also discuss Philip K Dick's Ubik

We will meet on 8/8 at M-Brew at 7pm!

Of course someone from Grosse Pointe has a hard time understanding the facts of structural inequality and the poverty trap. You don't care about poverty, why would you learn how it works?

Do some homework. You can start with this book. Read about structural inequality, poverty, and economic immobility in the U.S. It might help you actually begin to understand how poverty functions.

It isn't your fault you were born privileged, it is your parents'.

> Detroit is in the middle of an economic resurgence

No thanks to Detroiters themselves. Took suburbanites and companies like Quicken Loans to make that happen. My only regret moving away from Detroit was that I had to quit working with Dan Gilbert on that effort.

> they cannot get past obstacles such as getting the training they need and the transportation to jobs.

Whatever... I'm a self taught systems engineer. I have no formal school training for what I do, yet I have a 6-figure income based on that effort. Transportation to a job is unaffordable? Whatever Detroit! Stop looking for a Mercedes to show off to your homies. I drive a 86 Toyota Tercel to work every day. Works just fine for me. Grow up, stop whining, and do what you need to do regardless of what it takes to get there.

> She says getting a job in Detroit is difficult.

You're not looking hard enough. Work harder and keep looking. You've only failed when you give up.

> because a majority of all the jobs are taken by individuals that stay in different cities which knocks you out of the competition

Oh stop pointing fingers... someone getting a job over you simply because they live in other cities has nothing to do with it. You weren't good competition during the interview. Do better.

> what the downtown is doing is it’s creating jobs that poor people aren’t going to get. It’s creating high tech jobs in a city...

Yeah... every single job at any company downtown is a tech job. Who builds out all those offices that are opening up? Drywall, plumbing, electrical? Who maintains the offices? Who keeps em clean? Who prepares the food at the cafeterias in those buildings? Who does security? Who delivers supplies like paper, cables, and other consumables and equipment? Someone has to do all that stuff...those aren't tech jobs. Every company has a need for that kind of stuff.

> As more people work in downtown Detroit, they’re going to need a lot of services: lunch time and, you know, there’s going to be security services. There is some amount of jobs that don’t require and advanced education that will be generated by more employment in Detroit,

See? I just said that. Someone else that thinks like I do and doesn't believe in copouts.

> For people who live in the Chandler Park area, downtown is more than seven miles away. That means transportation is again a problem.

Really? It's a 40-45 minute bike ride. My commute is 70 minutes in a car every day. Besides, 45 minutes twice a day could fight off that obesity problem. Quit whining and start pedaling.

> an economic revival in the city of the Detroit that is not completely white, but is white dominated and a dramatic level of poverty and inequality for large numbers of African-Americans who live in the city.

Here's the deal. I'll make it quick. Detroit used to be awesome. Back in like the 60's and earlier. Then African-Americans wanted to own it, elected a black mayor and pushed white folks north of 8 mile (I own and have read this book... have you?). Then the city slowly fell apart. Literally decayed from the inside out. African-Americans let it get that way, didn't do a whole hell of a lot to correct that trend. Just let it fall apart. Misplaced priorities, lack of focus on community, morals, striving to be better, etc.etc.. just all around terrible job of being good stewards of this once great city. Suburbanites watched it happen in disgust. Older folks always have stories of how "it used to be", and "I remember when you could...but just can't now". Younger suburbanites had enough of this, saw how awesome other cities are around the country, and decided to do something about it. Opened up new businesses, cleaned up neighborhoods and built community gardens, started some tech companies, revitalized some of these old and forgotten properties, brought some foot traffic to the streets for restaurants & shopping to come back. So that's happening... and what's going on? Detroit is fucking complaining about it... about how unfair it is! Get over yourselves. Lose the attitude, change your perspective on life, learn how to work with people instead of against them, and put some actual effort and work into stuff rather than sitting back complaining about it and expecting a handout.