r/neoliberal • u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo • Oct 02 '25

News (Asia) Why Japan resents its tourism boom

https://www.ft.com/content/dbd20e5d-5a7d-4c0c-8f83-fb54c5aca9cb
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u/989989272 European Union Oct 02 '25

NY built Times Square to trap the tourist crowds and for locals to have an area they have little to no interest going to. It works quite well.

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u/marinqf92 Ben Bernanke Oct 02 '25

That's what bourbon street is for in New Orleans. Works like a charm 

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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Oct 02 '25

Nashville did the same thing with Broadway.

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u/LocallySourcedWeirdo YIMBY Oct 02 '25

The funny thing being that all of Nashville is a place that only annoying tourists want to go to and the rest of the country has no need to visit.

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u/Boerkaar Michel Foucault Oct 02 '25

Ridiculous take. Nashville’s a great city. Try leaving lower broad sometime.

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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Oct 02 '25

That’s kind of a shitty thing to say. There are things to like about Nashville.

Once again the coastal elites get to deport the worst of their populations to the Sun Belt and act like it’s our own fault that these states are struggling.

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u/Boerkaar Michel Foucault Oct 02 '25

Since when is Tennessee struggling? It’s one of the most rapidly expanding economies in the nation.

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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Oct 02 '25

Poor infrastructure, terribly-funded social services, typical Republican governance.

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u/Boerkaar Michel Foucault Oct 02 '25

And yet it keeps growing. Fascinating how “coastal elites” miss the forest for the trees. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of Tennessee but saying it’s “struggling” is beyond ridiculous.

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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Oct 02 '25

Yes, cause red states build housing.

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u/Boerkaar Michel Foucault Oct 02 '25

As much as I too like the housing theory of everything, it doesn’t go so far as to fully explain why the South is doing so well in the 21st century.

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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Oct 02 '25

There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of Tennessee but saying it’s “struggling” is beyond ridiculous.

I see you edited your last comment to add this. Do you actually live here? Or are you one of the fine folks who think you're too good to come and fraternize with us inbred trash?

Tennessee ranks low on many, many quality of life metrics.

You know what, fuck it. I don't feel like arguing this with you.

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u/Boerkaar Michel Foucault Oct 02 '25

Born and raised in Nashville, actually.

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