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Many of the poorest have no trouble affording , drugs , guns , phones , sneakers , liquor and lottery tickets....
With a multi trillion dollar under ground economy all these stats about many who supposedly have nothing are a crock as they are part of that usage economy
When they protest they have a right to live in NYC, you don't have a right. That's like me arguing that I have a right to buy a mansion in the Hamptons for $100k.
You don't need to live in NYC and you have no right to say you belong anywhere. It's supposed to be a market based economy but socialism takes a chunk of supply away from the market so it ends up being pricier than without market forces only. The cost of living here has a ripple effect on the economy here. The democrats just don't know by handing out more the more they need to take from somewhere and someone.
Poor people have poor mindset, so it doesn't matter they have $1k, 100k, or give them $1mil they will still be poor.
Look at how many athletes that went from mega rich to mega broke. It's not about the money, it's all in someone's mindset.
Like Jordan Peterson famously recounts, he had a cocaine addicted patient where if he was broke, that meant he was alive. If he had any sort of real money he would be face down in a ditch within 2 days
If poor people weren't around propped up by the lefist government. They would get paid even higher salaries or hourly rates. Because the employers know that many poor people aren't paying much for rent they can pay people less. Because some people wouldn't mind taking a lower rate because they are living in NYC for free.
So think about that, your salary is local economy adjusted.
For those not near a subway, are they equally miles away from the nearest BUS? Bus and Subway cost the same as Subway.
Aren't you the one always talking about those friends that live in Riverdale, FAR away from the subway and what a pain it is to get the bus there to see them?
The fallacy with the claim is that all 1 million people mentioned are living in NYC and most will continue to do so, and they are surviving, one way or the other, even if they don't pay for childcare or healthcare or make above poverty level wages. If nothing else the poor are resourceful and learn how to survive.
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