Whatever baseline you prefer, that long term picture is virtually hopeless.

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As for the promotional side, gathering your community together on mailing lists, Twitter, Facebook or whatever other venue you prefer is, once more, time-consuming.

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Feel free to buy whatever type of bread, meat and condiments you prefer.

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Here, then, is a clue to ways in which rustbelt cities may be able to reinvent themselves: create new industries based on fun and games call them culture, if you prefer and certainly exploit whatever is already in place.

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Or, if you prefer, inequality is going to fall pretty much whatever we do.

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