Will Rich People Flee from NYC?
Of course. Stuff like this happens all the time.
The landslide election of a liberal mayor in America’s biggest city, with the country’s most sophisticated people, is bound to cause a calamity. New York City is the nation’s #1 economy, whose metro area’s GDP is north of $2 trillion, and it’s going to see some of the nation’s wealthiest people move to places like Kansas.
To be sure, the folks who run the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and entertainment, including film and television, are headed elsewhere.
As one billionaire told me, “Woke people make me puke. I’ve never explored this, but I have a feeling that real core competency is growing wheat. Got my fingers crossed, hoping for plenty of rain.”
As part of our modern lives, most Americans have been able to visit our nation’s major cities. We’ve been to places like Chicago, Los Angeles, and even much smaller Portland, Oregon–urban areas that the Trump administration has targeted with federal troops, ostensibly to stop crime and halt the flow of drugs.
All literate English-speaking people have a great deal of respect for Isaac Asimov, but it’s hard to understand his and so many others’ disdain for education as it is delivered in our schools. And some have been so much more cutting in their remarks.
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For people wishing to understand stoicism, here’s the core tenet from ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus.
Re: the cartoon here, a reader notes: The tide is slowly starting to turn against Trump. But I’m not holding my breath. It can spring back any minute.
I’m happy to report that during my K-12 years (1960 – 1973), I never heard a teacher mention anything that could be construed as “patriotic.” For example, we learned U.S. history, but it was not twisted to imply that the United States was “the greatest country on Earth.”
The irony here is that all Trump wanted was absolute power. Dividing the nation between educated/kind people and hateful morons was just a means to that end.
When we look back at the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, the dichotomy of science and religion actually made sense. The content of the Book of Genesis actually is in conflict with the theory of evolution.
We all learned percentages in 6th grade (+/-), so we know that if you reduce a certain number by 100%, you have zero. It makes no sense to say that you’re going to reduce the price of a certain drug or grocery item by more than 100%.
