Richard Florida realizes mistake yet doubles down on killing the Middle Class

Gus Perkowski
   Richard Florida had long been an advocate of giving money to the creative class and hoping their creativity and domination of the economy would trickle down to everyone else. Florida felt for a long time that spending on the arts and technological centers in cities where these prestigious occupations cluser would eventually help the rest of the urban area but alas he has decided it only helps to pad the wealth and increase the incomes of this small creative class. The rewards of the “creative class” strategy, he notes, “flow disproportionately to more highly-skilled knowledge, professional and creative workers,” since the wage increases that blue-collar and lower-skilled workers see “disappear when their higher housing costs are taken into account.” His reasonable and fairly brave, if belated, takeaway: “On close inspection, talent clustering provides little in the way of trickle-down benefits.”
  It is good to see Richard Florida to realize his mistakes and that his critics and the critics of policies he exposed have been exposed as fraudulent. He has doubled down however saying we should give up on aiding the rust belt and just concentrate our resources on the creative cities and the flush investment they should continue to receive. This is more Richard florid hogwash and the only reason the rust belt is the rust belt is because good high-paying jobs in factories have been shipped out of the country in order to make a small wealthy class creative with untold amount of time to be creative. Richard Florida is a sack of shit and if you took the funding and money away from this professional urban classes as quickly as you took it away from the Middle class they would be in the same pernicious position and quickly lose their coolness. The economic focus on industries like entertainment, software, and social media creates a distorted set of economic priorities rewarding only those "creative' enough just to be in a protected industry where their wages are set and safe from cheaper competition from abroad. Richard Florida is a sack of horse shit and there is never much emphasis about families in Florida’s work, in part because his basic theory focuses on groups like singles, childless young professionals and gays. He largely discounts suburbs, generally the nation’s nurseries where the future worker is being educated and groomed.