Gentrification is a complex issue but the main problem with it is that it basically amounts to people with money (which in our society is a proxy for power) being able to control and push around those without. Most of us accept that those with money are able to buy nicer things. Fancier cars or computers, more exotic vacations, snazzier clothes, etc. but when it comes to being able to force other people who are just living their lives and minding their business to give up things they already have and that are extremely important to them, then people take issue. It isn't necessarily that there's more "demand" for change compared to keeping the status quo, but rather that the people who are demanding change are more powerful. You could have a home and community that means everything to someone be turned over to a wealthier person who has looked at 20 different locations and could be really happy in 5 of them but has decided on this one because... it's a two minute closer drive to the yoga studio.
Yes the world has endless stories of the powerful dominating the weak, but the whole point of our modern concepts of justice and fairness are to avoid this. Gentrification is just a tricker issue since all the actions are indirect through faceless, impersonal "economic forces" rather than one person doing something directly to another. But just because something is better hidden doesn't change what's fundamentally occurring.
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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
The market judges them better by being willing to pay more for them.
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This statement is saying, "People who can pay more for what they prefer have fundamentally more important preferences than those who can afford to pay less."
Being "willing" to pay more and being "able" to pay more are not the same thing, but the market doesn't differentiate. Having more money doesn't automatically mean you have better taste, judgement, or anything else. It's often just as simple as different groups have different cultures and different groups have different wealth levels. So the "market" is biased toward the culture of the group with greater wealth.