he buys up most of the residential housing, turns half of it into slums and the other half into sleazy commercial property
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Replying to @arthur_affect
hell the historical inflection point is even given - Potter tells us when he's trying to seduce George to work for him
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in 1929 when the crash hits Potter and Bailey are the only two creditors to remain solvent, everyone else goes bankrupt
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if the B&L didn't exist Potter could've literally bought the whole town during the Depression
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without the new manufacturing, a town of Pottersville's size would have likely emptied out by this point, esp during the war
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the plastics factory (that George gives up the chance to work in) comes to town in both timelines though
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but he's the one that suggests to Sam that it moves to BF instead of Rochester!
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Sam may have come to that conclusion independently, but then the movie shouldn't have that part of the phone convo
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so maybe Pottersville is built entirely around the casino as its main source of revenue
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it's a roadside stop community where people don't live unless they have to
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Replying to @arthur_affect
knowing academia, I'm sure some urban economist has written a paper on this
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