Is Detroit fixable? How would you fix it?

[opebo]

Burn it down. All of it. Seriously; in its current physical state it can't be saved and its very existence makes a mockery of America.

Detroit isn't what does that.  America is worse than just Detroit.  America is a horror from sea to shining sea, with every rat caught in the middle carrying the horror in his desperate, trapped little heart.   Burning Detroit down wouldn't chance a single thing about the horror.

What would help Detroit, and America, would be the guillotine, applied liberally upon the upper classes.   Burn down Palm Beach, not Detroit.

[opebo]

It's... probably too late now.

Most definitely!  And there's an argument to be made that it is too late for the entire country.

[opebo]

How would I fix it:

Won't do any good, Gramps, if you leave capitalism in place.

[opebo]

...a free market solution doesn't work if there are no buyers.

There is always a price a buyer will pay.

Ok here is the center of your total misunderstanding of economics, Wonk.  You just go on this blind faith.  Obviously no one will buy something or even accept it for free if it doesn't make them money.   The dearth of demand is the glaring and eternal failure of the capitalist system.

[opebo]

...And so we all live with Detroit or South Memphis or West Virginia or wherever.

And coming soon the majority of us will live in Detroit or South Memphis or West Virginia, etc.  Actually I think that's happened already.