NYC has the ball drop at new year.

Goodwill has a recycling partner that can take most e-waste .

I don’t think cities are going to hurt for long.

Offices in cities have always been a bit of a joke. Street level businesses and residential above is a great use of resources. Each residential unit needs to get a bit larger due to WFH - home office. But, with all the offices clearing out there will be plenty of space to create affordable WFH condos.

I read his reasoning and I wish I could be that delusional. Clearly if I was I would make a great CEO.

Edit: Even better. Make actual negotiable contracts if you want to force work from home. With actually clearly defined responsibilities and negotiation. That way you can ensure that being in the office is met and I am sure that you won’t burn me out and replace me in three months after forcing me to change everything.

I think you just defined purgatory.

Yes

That or we teach the the Marie Kondo method with some SEL.

“Let’s understand that Derek has given us all that he has. We appreciate his help in our learning and must say goodbye and thank you.”

“Everyone, remember, if we are like Derek we to can get worn out and be replaced. Thus you must seize the means of production.”

Frankly. I don’t think I internalized the source material enough to provide a fair take on the source and concede the author likely conflates the issue poorly.

Thank so much for the intellectual bout. Appreciate you.

Sure. But the issue is the sample size is naturally large so the Central Limit Theorem applies.

As such, the population of the US as a whole is likely normally distributed. Thus the outliers are normalized and this should not skew anything.

140k/4 is about 35k a person. Since a household of 4 assume 2 kids and kids consume a median of 30k a year not including housing you are limiting each adult to about 40k a year pre tax. Tax is going to consume about 50k so that’s 30k for 2 adults for the year. Housing costs at 1800 a month for a 2 bedroom eat up about another 20k.

This leaves 10k for food, clothes, etc.

Assuming I didn’t jack up my math (bad assumption even if I teach finance as a living), there is simply not enough money to really enjoy life. At 80k you are living on a 60k deficit, which means you rely heavily on the good grace of others to function.

Unless I am mistaken poverty lines are usually for families not individuals.

I think 140k median us wide for a family seems reasonable. Sure it’s pretty high for some Low Cost of Living areas, but many of those areas lack local social services, public transit, etc.

For how many people?

That is at least 40 (technically it’s at least 41 but the idea holds).

It’s also read as greater than 40.

$1,000,000,000,002 then, right?

Wow you guys had to use the hill? That’s rough.