Socialism wins again - Detroit goes Bankrupt!

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Originally Posted by glatt

This public library. They even left books on the shelves.

Originally Posted by glatt

I'm a little surprised there isn't more scavenging going on.

I recently saw that 47% of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate. Why scavenge a doorstop?

Seriously the decay of Detroit is scary. This isn't a little mining town that faded when the silver ran out, this is a major bloody city.
If it were a stand-alone entity, a Somalia-like collapse would be quite plausible. Being part of the US, it shouldn't go like that; the rest of the country can provide enough support to maintain a semblance of civil life ... but what happens if three, four, ten US cities go the same way? At what point can the US no longer hold it's act together as a socially and economically developed society?

And then what?

How many spare rooms are there in Grifftopia?