You might think Detroit is facing dark times because it is going through bankruptcy reorganization. But what the nattering nabobs of negativism in the media won't tell you is that Detroit is the new land of milk and honey thanks to iPhone apps.
Fortunately, Valleywag's Sam RBiddle took time out from the nation's unnecessary concern about Kevyn Orr's perfunctory bankruptcy filing--it's just necessary business strategy to reorganize and maximize profits--to (ironically) provide a sampling of Tweets that speak truth to despair about the Motor City's revival as the app capital of...err...Wayne County.
Valleywag: The collapse of American industry is nothing in the face of disruptive apps. Don't take my word for it—the unbridled optimism of Startupvania is never wrong.
Plus American Express believes it, writing just four weeks ago that start-ups can save Detroit. “Dan [Gilbert] and his team have the money, so basically they let the government do what they do and we run the city ourselves,” entrepreneur Matt Mosher told AmEx. See, maybe this bankruptcy is a good thing because it makes it easy for solutionists to just run the city themselves!
Wait, you're not buying it? Neither is Valleywag commenter Twig: "You would need eleventy-billion startups to solve the unemployment problem - tech startups are not great at producing many actual jobs, unless they become enormous, which is rare."
Wait, technological innovation designed to automate or replace labor once done by human beings won't solve a systemic unemployment problem? Look at all those travel agents hired to work for Orbitz.
Haters just gonna hate, I guess.
