{"id":1890,"date":"2022-09-19T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T05:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/19\/why-are-rich-tech-entrepreneurs-obsessed-with-painting-us-cities-as-dystopian-hellholes\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T06:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T05:56:03","slug":"why-are-rich-tech-entrepreneurs-obsessed-with-painting-us-cities-as-dystopian-hellholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/19\/why-are-rich-tech-entrepreneurs-obsessed-with-painting-us-cities-as-dystopian-hellholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are rich tech entrepreneurs obsessed with painting US cities as \u201cDystopian Hellholes\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/xgyvxa\/why-are-rich-people-so-obsessed-with-proving-us-cities-are-dystopian-hell-holes\">Vice argues<\/a> that \u201cRight-wing pundits, landlords, and tech executives all believe they can prove we are amid a crime wave with just one more video.\u201d Why? To sell cities more smart tech, of course! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This gives more context to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/18\/detroit-may-spend-covid-relief-funds-on-ineffective-and-discriminatory-public-safety-smart-tech\/\">last news item<\/a> I wrote about\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1601.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1601.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1601-342x700.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1601-73x150.jpg 73w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1601-768x1573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1601-750x1536.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice argues that \u201cRight-wing pundits, landlords, and tech executives all believe they can prove we are amid a crime wave with just one more video.\u201d [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/19\/why-are-rich-tech-entrepreneurs-obsessed-with-painting-us-cities-as-dystopian-hellholes\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[297,296,129],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-imagineering","tag-public-safety","tag-smart-city"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1601.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}