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Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
The sound of gentrification is silence.
Xochitl Gonzalez • Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
"The society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise was founded by a physician named Julia Barnett Rice in 1906. Rice believed noise was unhealthy, and enlisted New York City’s gentry (including Mark Twain) to lobby for things like rules governing steamboat whistles, and silence pledges from children who played near hospitals."