Can Anyone Carry Gary?

Long thoughts on post-industrial urban blight, protectionism, and when economics becomes culture

They don’t make nothing here no more
You know, capitalism is above the law
I say, “It don’t count ‘less it sells”
When it costs too much to build it at home
You just build it cheaper someplace else

— Bob Dylan, “Union Sundown”

In a recent “What Do You Think You’re Looking At?” piece, I featured a building I learned about from a YouTube channel I recently…