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He was the one calling it the place a ghetto. As you mentioned, bringing in more economic wealth will surely be better for the skilled and non-skilled alike. My argument is saying too much tech is the problem and then saying but I'm going to teach html is backwards.
tl;dr: Waaaah, the people with the money are making the rules and instead of doing it better myself I'll just write some clever insults from my corner.
This is no different than dropping a Walmart in the middle of a small town and crushing all the family businesses. It's not utopian but it is how nature works. Those with the biggest teeth control the ecosystem. The only difference is the modern world has decided to use a point system to measure power. Don't like it? Strap on your entrepreneur hat and do it how you think it should be done.
Oh, and teaching the "locals" who in the "ghetto" how to write HTML is not going to change anything.