The Internet Age has brought on a phenoma of extreme societal compartmentalization, which in the modern day has resulted in the seperation of the many different groups that make up America (i.e. different ethnicities, genders, political alignments). While this separation may not be seen in day-to-day life, it has slowly caused many people to view "outsiders" in a more extreme way and for them to perceive others as having more extreme ideas that what can actually be observed face to face.

Due to the massive technological advances that came at the beginning of the Internet Age, women were able to join the workforce in massive numbers. By the 1990s, women no longer needed the legal or personal permission of men to live as they pleased, and the self-sufficience created by countless new jobs meant that women no longer had any logical pressures to be subservient to men. Patriarchy became illegitimate as men were generally no longer needed for women to navigate society.

Students and those who benefit from publicly-assisted programs are rarely the only people to benefit from them. Organizations like CUNY exist to benefit society as a whole. CUNY professors and instructors that taught at the university were those who were the most passionate about spreading knowledge, but they also benefitted from jobs that they could passionate about. Thousands of CUNY employees were treated as just another part of the budget cut and were sent off. This disgusting act was permitted by the BHE, who were nearly entirely white and clearly did not appreciate the value that the CUNY system in its original form provided for the disadvantaged.

It is clear that the CUNY schools at this time existed to serve NYC's diverse community and support the post-secondary needs of those who were unable to afford to attend expensive private universities or access technical schools. However, the students and their schools were still treated as disposable and with little care from the heads of the CUNY system. The students were being robbed of more than just an education; they were being robbed of a community that reflected who they were. It's clear that this has no value in the eyes of the heads of CUNY who only cared about maximizing profit when the university system was founded on the idea of providing education to all.

Gentrification is more than just rich people moving into low-income neighborhoods and raising housing prices. It is entirely systemic that starts with the existence of the low-income neighborhoods in the first place. After groups are marginalized and forced to live barely above or below the poverty line, they are further marginalized and villainized in the eyes of wider society. It then becomes the "responsibility" of more affluent members of society to better the community with their presence.

I find it interesting that this information is so easily accessible and shows that governing bodies can and will put corporations over people. Clearly, the members of these disadvantaged communities cannot really be blamed for their worsening situation. If it is clear that cities have done this in the past on purpose, then why do many people today still continue to blame disadvantaged groups in America for their socioeconomic situation?

Countries often experience brain-drain, resulting in their most educated citizens leaving their countries en masse. Is it possible and likely for these citizens to return to their countries and attempt to improve infrastructure and potential industries? Would it be beneficial for the next generation of people approaching working age in said countries, or would they emigrate regardless?

Jobs in the service industry have always been in demand for "low-skill"/non-university educated people. Jobs in this industry have and are typically done by women, especially women of color. bell hooks makes note of this in her work "We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity" where she notes the fact that black American women have historically been relegated to jobs in the service industry. This lead to them often being the breadwinners of their households as black American men often had difficultly with maintaining jobs that provided enough to support their families. People will always need to be taken care of, so there will always be service jobs. In modern day America, these jobs are often held by immigrant women. For example, my immigrant mother is a CNA at a nursing home, and the vast majority of her colleagues are fellow Ghanaians, Nigerians, Jamaicans, and women from other black-majority countries. It's interesting to see how immigrants over the span of a century still gravitate to similar jobs.