Adams Continues His Ranting About WFM - Says It Is "Draining" City's Economy (Russia: buyers, tax)
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Those dollars will go to the local deli in his/her hometown or the grocery store should he/she decide to make lunch at home.
If this ends up being a structural change then NYC will continue to take a hit.
That's what happened during the pandemic restrictions. Many Outer-Boro restaurants/cafes did a little better than a lot of their Manhattan counterparts. Local neighborhood residents kept them going. My local coffee shop on S.I. had many customers who'd stop buy before and during their WFH days to pick up coffee/cakes, etc. Even when they were just doing take-out they had a decent amount of customers.
But many outer-borough restaurants/cafes were destroyed by the pandemic restrictions............
Perhaps you didn't fully read my post. If you did, I don't believe the word "pajamas" is given as a reason why I prefer to work from home. Instead, you'd see that I mentioned a commuting cost of over $20 a day, 4 unpaid hours a day spent getting ready for work and commuting, and the realistic risk of being a victim of a plethora of homeless, druggies and loonies. Without knowing my financial situation or my family responsibilities, you think I should be more concerned about someone else's well-being than my own, reducing my reasons to wanting to work in my pajamas. Says a helluva lot more about you than it does about me.
Edited to add: This may come as a surprise to you,, but wherever I am, I still have to eat. Since I'm not a farmer, I have to buy my food, so I'm always supporting a business. The only difference is that I'm now supporting businesses in my own neighborhood. Is that a problem?
Perhaps you didn't fully read my post. If you did, I don't believe the word "pajamas" is given as a reason why I prefer to work from home. Instead, you'd see that I mentioned a commuting cost of over $20 a day, 4 unpaid hours a day spent getting ready for work and commuting, and the realistic risk of being a victim of a plethora of homeless, druggies and loonies. Without knowing my financial situation or my family responsibilities, you think I should be more concerned about someone else's well-being than my own, reducing my reasons to wanting to work in my pajamas. Says a helluva lot more about you than it does about me.
Edited to add: This may come as a surprise to you,, but wherever I am, I still have to eat. Since I'm not a farmer, I have to buy my food, so I'm always supporting a business. The only difference is that I'm now supporting businesses in my own neighborhood. Is that a problem?
No need to take the quote so literal. "Working in pajamas" at this point is simply a colloquialism for working from home.
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We don't live in a planned economy. When there are major changes in th macro-economy, old business models are replaced by new ones.
Do you know what's selfish? The millions of able bodied NYCers who take welfare and government subsidies. That's not selfish, right?
Your concept of "selfishness" is completely twisted. I'm not surprised because NYCs welfare state has completely corrupted many NYCers minds.
One can only take what has been given to them
So maybe you should take up your issues with the government
Or vote with your feet
You anti-welfare people are all talk and no action
You work from home, don't have to commute, and you hate the politics here. So what's keeping you? Why are you not running for office under the party of your choice? Is it easier to just perch yourself on the proverbial window ledge, and warble your political beliefs from sun-up to sundown, at anyone who bothers reading? Sounds like self-inflicted torture to me.
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