New York City’s Surrender Flag
New York City has given up. I’m sure the employer will keep paying an employee who abandoned the job. Someone will undoubtedly cover for the city’s shift. An inadvertent economics lesson is already undoing progress, which is the progressive signature. A mayor who thinks he can sucker the municipality, mathematics, and reality is doing great except for the things. Just like him, Zohran Mamdani’s ideas don’t work.
Government supermarkets almost seem too obvious to mock. But a Soviet throwback is begging for taunting. The alleged embodiment of trends and commerce is not even treating medals featuring hammers and sickles as kitschy.
We advance while regressing. Every comrade has a pocket screen with access to every bit of accumulated information, including the consistent horrors of socialism every single time it’s been tried. Worshipers use the devices to praise the glorious mayor for caring enough to make child care free. Worrying about just who’s paying is so bourgeoisie.
The metropolis sure got jealous. Demonizing someone who could be paying you seems shortsighted until a clever savior comes along with a plan to make wealthy fiends pay a living wage without having to work. The utopian contraption functions perfectly as long as nothing needs to be created and large-scale employers getting demonized by the mayor on the sidewalk don’t grow tired of menacing loiterers.
Condemn bosses who make what you deem to be excessive salaries to get ahead. Sure, high earners didn’t take anything from you. In fact, they may have hired you or sold you something you really wanted. Such crimes are the only ones that cannot be excused in a Batman-free Gotham. Entrepreneurs owe you something for creating a product or service so worthwhile that you’re willing to spend. It’s their fault for tempting.
The professionally envious wonder why they don’t get ahead. Resentment doesn’t seem to make the skyline more glamorous. There sure are a lot of poor people who need assistance in a place that adds to the dole like it’s an employment opportunity. Cheering for wealth transfer is either utter obliviousness or wholesale scheming. Leftists cover the whole spectrum of humanity except the middle.
Everything interesting is closing. The list of fun businesses that made strolling appealing has dwindled faster than the city’s supply of billionaires. Outposts with character have been replaced with condos that couldn’t be more generic were that the goal. Is that the goal? Building warehouses to store citizens requires demolishing the interesting reasons to move there. That’s the only efficiency on display. That’s until they open one central kitchen to make every delivery order.
Electing to become a suburb of East Berlin won’t change which side won the Cold War. Trying their very hardest to not try hard at all is a persistent habit amongst people who would rather blame than generate. Glistening empty towers contrast with impossibly dingy slums in a socialist actuality that’s supposedly a capitalist infliction. Creating awful conditions they claim their enemies provoked substitutes for developing a business plan.
The symptoms have been festering. New York City’s softness got exposed during shutdowns. Fearful bullying manifested itself in sundry ways from shrieking at anyone who dared take an unencumbered breath in a supermarket to deciding which industries are to be shuttered any random day for collective health. Emergency despots shrugged as businesses which were barely getting by had their revenue disappear. Making money while a store is closed turns out to be challenging. Leftists assault the little guys they claim to adore.
Voters who chose class warfare get highly taxed for awful results, which is the ideology in action. Realizing that every dollar seized by government is one that can’t be used to buy or pay is one way of learning we really are all in this together.
Confused grabby politicians wonder why successful people they demonize don’t subject themselves to feedings by particularly greedy vampires. Very genuine politicians try to guilt their human blood banks into staying and paying, which is a sure sign of a rational political ideology and respect for humanity.
Services have been withdrawn. Democrats demanding funding fail to grasp that New Yorkers who moved on up had already done that. Employing people while spending at will are typical behaviors of the city’s comic book villains. It’s not like rich people dine out or anything.
Putting up with a lot differs from putting up with too much. A New York address used to carry significance. It still does, although now it’s in the opposite sense. Discovering some sucker Manhattanite is still putting up with endless indignities is now accompanied by pity at getting no benefits. Those outside the contaminated zone shake heads at what suckers inmates are or fear for their safety.
Avoid ZIP codes with known toxic waste dumps. Individuals and companies used to desire setting up an office there because it meant they arrived at the place that drew the most impressive achievers. Getting there was prestige’s pinnacle. Meanwhile, independent artists thrived on the vibe.
But that was before it was easy to use one’s couch as an office chair. Ordering people to stay at home was yet another unseen consequence by tyrants who’ve made the jurisdictions they attempt to control dangerous thanks to various types of muggings.
It’s not like there’s fun available as a tradeoff: you can enjoy a bank on one corner and Starbucks on the next. It doesn’t matter which block. The only businesses that can survive in Gotham are monolithic conglomerates if it doesn’t feature enough irony.
Some damage can’t be undone. Jealous voters will always have elected this commie charlatan. A city built by people with the precise opposite values declines in ingratitude. Creativity is quashed as an ideology. New York City is dangerous on the sidewalk and at home as predators on every level attempt to seize what useful residents acquire in exchange for offering goods and services. Worst of all, it’s dull. All the fun escaped for various reasons. The lack of interesting things to see and do in what used to be the best place for it is as dull as socialism. Consistency is predictable.
