History Quotes / UrbanSegregation

->''If you somehow manage to machete your way through traffic, road closures, and rich drunk assholes en route to the luxury boxes their [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections rich asshole fathers bought them]] for not wrecking the yacht this year, you will be asked to pay an arm and a leg in parking fees, even after you've mortgaged your home and sacrificed your first born to get a ticket. As if it needs repeating, the product on the field [[IncompetenceInc is not worth it]], but everyone in the stands will still have a good time. This is because they are reading the ''New York Post'' on their [=iPads=] and have to be reminded by the scoreboard when to cheer.

-> ''"My apartment overlooks chase square. A very rich part of town, very safe. And of course, barely ten minutes walk from one of the worst sinkholes in the city.''
->''Because it's always like that, isn't it?"''

->''"Come, is it not the nature of things that ants toil and grasshoppers sing and play?"''
-->--'''''Film/AChristmasCarol1951'''''

->''"The people of Valua are either very rich or very poor and [[SlobsVersusSnobs they detest each other]]. Only the richest people in Valua can live in Upper City. The less fortunate are confined to Lower City."''
-->--'''Drachma''', ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia''

->'''Bashir''': Why are these people in here? Are they criminals?
->'''Sisko''': No. People with criminal records weren't allowed in the [[MaximumFunChamber Sanctuary Districts.]]
->'''Bashir''': Then what did they do to deserve this?
->'''Sisko''': Nothing. They're just people without jobs or places to live.
->'''Bashir''': So they get put in ''here?''
->'''Sisko''': [[WelcomeToHell Welcome to the twenty first century]], Doctor.
-->--'''''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''''', "Past Tense"

!!!RealLife
->''“A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.”''
-->--'''[=W. E. B. DuBois=]'''

->''"Diversity = Really rich white folk won't live here."''
-->--'''''Website/UrbanDictionary'''''

->''"It seems that the company has found a way to turn light itself into a valuable commodity that can be bought and sold. As the title implies, one of the company’s business models involves the construction of artificial suns. There’s the suggestion that access to the light created by these suns has been restricted -- access to sunlight is a privilege of the higher class, and certainly not something that the working class need to be concerned about....It’s an absolutely terrifying thought, that a world could exist materialistic enough to commoditise sunlight itself."''
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2013/11/26/doctor-who-the-sun-makers-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers}} "The Sun Makers"]]

->''"Stadium relocation be damned, there are still only two types of Niners fans: powerfully connected VC investors and felons. There is no middle class. You're either being helicoptered into the loge level or being stabbed in the parking lot."''
-->--'''[[http://www.deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2014-san-francisco-49ers-1625046485 Deadspin]]''', "Why Your Team Sucks 2014: UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco [=49ers.=]"

->''"I mean, [[BigRottenApple New York]] always had the ''reputation'' for being hostile, like there were always jokes about the guy lying in the street and everybody walking over him. But you didn't feel like you were taking your life into your hands and that people there were going to kill you, the sense you get when you walk through the city today. And also, you didn't have the same sense of super-wealth right next to grinding poverty--like today you see people sitting at a fancy restaurant drinking wine, and some homeless person lying on the street right in front of them. There wasn't quite that kind of thing either."''
-->--'''Noam Chomsky''', ''Understanding Power''

-->--'''''UrbanDictionary'''''

-->--'''''AChristmasCarol''''' (1951)

->'""The people of Valua are either very rich or very poor and [[SlobsVersusSnobs they detest each other]]. Only the richest people in Valua can live in Upper City. The less fortunate are confined to Lower City."''

->''"It seems that the company has found a way to turn light itself into a valuable commodity that can be bought and sold. As the title implies, one of the company’s business models involves the construction of artificial suns. There’s the suggestion that access to the light created by these suns has bee restricted -- access to sunlight is a privilege of the higher class, and certainly not something that the working class need to be concerned about....It’s an absolutely terrifying thought, that a world could exist materialistic enough to commoditise sunlight itself."''

-->--'''WEBDuBois'''

->''"The city has become a dystopia, a place where rich people literally have their own segregated form of transit, which allows them to look upon the heroin addicts lying in the gutter as if they were figures in a museum diorama. In 20 years, the city will have a floating monorail that costs $100 per ride, and you'll be allowed to spit on the poor as you blow by them. It hasn't just become New York, it has become an alien mutation of New York. The average apartment is the size of a safe deposit box and carries a $5,000 monthly rent. We're five years away from San Francisco being completely depopulated simply because hedge fund managers gobbled up so much real estate as assets and not for actual living quarters. It'll be the [[BizarroUniverse anti-matter]] [[MotorCity Detroit]]. Even Vegas isn't this good at swindling you out of your money."''
-->--'''[[http://www.deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2014-san-francisco-49ers-1625046485 Drew Magary]]''', "Why Your Team Sucks 2014: San Francisco [=49ers.=]"

->''"The city has become a dystopia, a place where rich people literally have their own segregated form of transit, which allows them to look upon the heroin addicts lying in the gutter as if they were figures in a museum diorama. In 20 years, the city will have a floating monorail that costs $100 per ride, and you'll be allowed to spit on the poor as you blow by them. It hasn't just become New York, it has become an alien mutation of New York. The average apartment is the size of a safe deposit box and carries a $5,000 monthly rent. We're five years away from San Francisco being completely depopulated simply because hedge fund managers gobbled up so much real estate as assets and not for actual living quarters. It'll be the [[BizarroUniverse anti-matter]] [[MotorCity Detroit]]. Even Vegas isn't this good at swindling you out of your money. "''

->''"The city has become a dystopia, a place where rich people literally have their own segregated form of transit, which allows them to look upon the heroin addicts lying in the gutter as if they were figures in a museum diorama. In 20 years, the city will have a floating monorail that costs $100 per ride, and you'll be allowed to spit on the poor as you blow by them. It hasn't just become New York, it has become an alien mutation of New York. The average apartment is the size of a safe deposit box and carries a $5,000 monthly rent. We're five years away from San Francisco being completely depopulated simply because hedge fund managers gobbled up so much real estate as assets and not for actual living quarters. It'll be the [[BizarroUniverse anti-matter]] [[MotorCity Detroit]]."''

->''"The city has become a dystopia, a place where rich people literally have their own segregated form of transit, which allows them to look upon the heroin addicts lying in the gutter as if they were figures in a museum diorama. In 20 years, the city will have a floating monorail that costs $100 per ride, and you'll be allowed to spit on the poor as you blow by them. It hasn't just become New York, it has become an alien mutation of New York. The average apartment is the size of a safe deposit box and carries a $5,000 monthly rent. We're five years away from San Francisco being completely depopulated simply because hedge fund managers gobbled up so much real estate as assets and not for actual living quarters. It'll be the [[BizarroUniverse anti-matter]] [[MotorCity Detroit]]. "''

->''"Now that Jed York has his precious luxury stadium, there's nothing stopping him from finally cutting ''(Jim)'' Harbaugh loose and embarking on decades of penny-pinching ownership that will produce both countless losses and insane profits. That's the real future of the Niners. They are a perfect microcosm of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco itself: a city that looks great and can be lots of fun, but secretly will do ANYTHING to keep you away. It is one giant co-op board. The city has become a dystopia, a place where rich people literally have their own segregated form of transit, which allows them to look upon the heroin addicts lying in the gutter as if they were figures in a museum diorama. In 20 years, the city will have a floating monorail that costs $100 per ride, and you'll be allowed to spit on the poor as you blow by them. It hasn't just become New York, it has become an alien mutation of New York. "''

-> ''My apartment overlooks chase square. A very rich part of town, very safe. And of course, barely ten minutes walk from one of the worst sinkholes in the city.''
-> Because it's always like that, isn't it?

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-> My apartment overlooks chase square. A very rich part of town, very safe. And of course, barely ten minutes walk from one of the worst sinkholes in the city.

-->-- '''Spider Jerusalem''', ''{{Transmetropolitan}}''

-->-- '''Kvothe''', ''TheNameOfTheWind''