That was as far as I wanted to go in terms of having a moral to the story because I don't think the scope of my game can really fit the solution to gentrification in it." Here are some of the impacts and consequences on the community. "So I really wanted the perspective of it to be, Hey, you are the gentrifier. "I'm changing the place that I live," Esposito says. That's what motivated him to create Donut County.
The elephant in the room: Esposito's complicity in that gentrification.Īs a tech worker moving into an area largely inhabited by people of color, many of them working class, he knows he's part of the problem.
"When I go for a walk in the morning, I always see something new or plans for something new," he says. Esposito lives in Highland Park, a neighborhood tat has seen a wave of high-end coffee shops, yoga studios and pricey apartment complexes spring up in recent years.
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