The “warm glow of collectivism” no doubt. Most of New York’s economy is based on finance and the big corporations centered there. Mere inertia causes that to be the case with modern technology. Watch a whole massive exodus to occur to better pastures not insane enough to put a know nothing trust fund commie in charge of the largest American city.
Communism Working Out in NYC as Well as it Always Does
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Just in time to visit the city tomorrow…
People with money can move anywhere. And they will.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
“Mere inertia causes that to be the case with modern technology.“
Inertia definitely… but technology? … my savings isn’t in my local bank anymore and neither does my former bank have a branch office in my town.
That could have been less clumsily expressed. With modern technology businesses can be headquartered anywhere. A central urban center for these functions is a relic of the past.
That last sentence…
Them’s English werds yer usin’ there Matey, but me brains cain’t put heads ner tails in ‘em…
Steven Cass: I think it’s supposed to say: ” not insane enough to put a know nothing trust fund commie in charge of the largest American city. 🙂
“A central urban center for these functions is a relic of the past.”
Agreed, Donald. I believe this statement applies to most of the functions that most cities have performed over the centuries. There seems to be a need for supply chain hubs and public air travel hubs. Additionally, if we can revive manufacturing as Trump is trying to do, then arguably there would be a need based on efficiency for manufacturing to concentrate near travel hubs, as in the past. But otherwise, the lefties are the only ones who want to perpetuate crowded large cities, the better to control those pesky citizens who keep wanting to do things lefties don’t like, such as run their own lives.
for real…
Yep. Drafting a post right before midnight does have its drawbacks!
@David WS: OT… I was working and living in the City of St. Louis in 1980, when much of Escape from New York was being filmed there. I can attest that the conditions described in this Wikipedia piece have only gotten worse in the ensuing 45-plus years.
“The 1981 film Escape from New York was primarily filmed in St. Louis, Missouri, due to the city’s post-industrial decay and fire-damaged buildings, which provided a perfect, authentic backdrop for the dystopian future of Manhattan as a maximum-security prison.”
Under “modern” Democrat politicians, who have in their policies been nearly as recklessly leftist as the trust-fund Communist in NYC, the “Gateway to the West” has become a sinkhole. My three generations of St. Louis-based ancestors, from both sides of the family, would be appalled.
The St. Louis municipality accounts for about 20% of greater St. Louis, i.e.. the slums. You can improve the quality of life in slum neighborhoods, but it requires amply staffed and pro-active police forces. A slum municipality does not have the tax base for that and those in politics in such places are commonly garbage people hostile to law enforcement and anything else good, true, and beautiful. One response might be to set up metropolitan police services. In the case of greater St. Louis, that would be a sheriff’s department, social welfare inspectorate, and police department which covers St. Louis City, St. Louis County, St. Charles County, and Jefferson County. This could be supplemented with a similar array covering Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois. This would be the first step to restoring public order in the dodgy parts of greater St. Louis. The trouble is that you have a scrum of popular tendencies, insider tendencies, and vested interests which would work to scotch such an idea and do so every time.
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What you have in New York is an example of a city that accomplished much over a period of twenty years. A conduit to that was that the core city accounts for 45% of an affluent metropolis. Now, they’re determined to throw it all away.