Third World in a First World
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"The third world within the first world." Rochester NY is not a 3rd world country. There are not people walking around with AK47's forcing people to work, there is not a vast majority starving and living in the streets. So why do people of Rochester think they can be compared?
The absence of a supermarket caused a major uprising in the city of Rochester just a few years ago. Stating that it was an injustice that all the surrounding areas had a supermarket and the people who lived in the city had to travel to buy food.
Now this is a major inconvenience, however it is not a tragedy of third world scale. There are many factors that need to be considered that were not discussed in the lecture. First, no information was shown on the economic resources in the area. For Wegmans or Tops to pass up an opportunity to open a store which would be profitable is outrageous, there are 3 Wegmans within 10 minutes of RIT each of which must be profitable for the supermarket to stay open...