That's a point you seemed determined to dodge here, just as when you ask if your friends who have never been to the US are somehow implicated in US segregation.
I'm not dodging anything. From my very first reply to Rayiner:
As for the problems you bring up, if low prices are the problem, he's contributing to the solution by increasing demand. I segregation is the problem, he's bringing his nordic white family into the neighborhood and reducing segregation.
Insofar as he's benefiting from these problems semi-directly it's because he's helping to solve them.
As for me, I've passed through Georgia once on a family road trip when I was 11. Insofar as more diffuse benefits like "well those actions caused a good economy that you benefit from", I work for a Indian SAAS with American customers. How's that any different from an Indian guy working for an Indian SAAS with American customers?
It obviously does not follow logically that simply doing something to help solve a problem necessarily outweighs the moral problem of benefiting from that wrong.
That also moots your earlier dodge of "doing something to help with a problem is better than the nothing I personally do", because that nothing you personally do is not offset by profit you are reaping from the misfortune of others.
I don't have a strong opinion about this debate, and I am also skeptical of anti-gentrification narratives, but the logic you're deploying here seems very sketchy.
Well I personally don't think it's bad to benefit from harms. I think it's bad to cause harms and good to mitigate them; benefiting from them or not is irrelevant.
A surgeon who reattaches limbs is a pretty ok guy, even if he's benefiting from horrible accidental amputations. So is an Uber driver who drives into a surging area.
I've even personally benefited from the holocaust, the Kosovo wars and the Rwandan genocide; I've met interesting people who would probably never have crossed my path under better circumstances. Is it really reasonable for me to feel guilt over that?
I personally think you should weigh the magnitude and the determinism of the benefit against its cost. Meeting a new person is nice, but it is a tiny benefit compared to the holocaust. And there is virtually no way anyone could predict you'd make a serendipitous connection as a result of the holocaust. The connection is trifling. At a certain threshold, you stop giving a shit about those kinds of connections.
None of that is true of well-off white people taking advantage of a market inefficiency caused by decades of segregation. In fact: providing opportunities for well-off white people to profit in the real estate market is an incentive for segregation, and an incentive along the same vector as one of the most important incentive systems supporting 19th and 20th century segregation: internal economic protectionism for favored ethnicities.
At this point in the discussion I think reasonable people can start disagreeing. That wasn't true given your earlier examples, which simply didn't connect logically to the conundrum Rayiner proposed.
But this is still a pretty trifling connection. People voted for segregation so that 52 years into the future, lower income upper class people could live in cheap mixed race neighborhoods? That's really also not something that was very predictable.
None of that is true of well-off white people taking advantage of a market inefficiency caused by decades of segregation....and an incentive along the same vector
Segregation was a "you must discriminate" law to prevent greedy folks like the author of this article from exploiting the market inefficiencies.
It seems like I've got 3 choices here.
(+1) Violate the spirit of that law, reduce the market inefficiency, and make money. 0) Live in Asia. (-1) Make the inefficiency worse by moving into a nice white suburb, pay more money, and obey the spirit of that now absent law.
To me it seems like "guilt follows benefit" implies I need to do (-1).
That's a point you seemed determined to dodge here, just as when you ask if your friends who have never been to the US are somehow implicated in US segregation.