The Weeds: the economic recovery has been concentrated in big cities. That's a big problem.

[LisaM]

7. No, the problem is that they build new housing and it's all for the luxury market.

I work in downtown Seattle and really ugly glassy towers are popping up everywhere, and they are all advertising that they are luxury apartments. Most of it's really ugly, too, the U District used to have a lot of charm and now it looks like a Soviet Bloc country, except even those ugly buildings have luxury apartments inside them. No rent control, people being evicted, and older building being knocked down to put up apartments that start at about $1600 for a one bedroom.

They are knocking down a successful subsidized housing project that's been here since the 1960s called Yesler Terrace - lots of people being evicted there, too, so they can put up more atrociously ugly buildings with these expensive (yet tasteless) apartments inside.

There used to be two reasonably-priced hotels in downtown Seattle and Amazon took them both - for office buildings.

These companies could do a lot towards rebuilding middle America, but they don't. What do their workers care where they live? They never go outside anyway, order all their stuff online, order all their meals from delivery services. They can get their laundry done at work. They eat all their lunches in the company cafeterias. Why doesn't Amazon build a glittering campus in some place that's losing population? None of it makes sense.