to understand New York City please imagine 100 people in your bedroom.
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to understand New York City please imagine 100 people in your bedroom. Yet, somehow all 100 of them have found a way to be comfortable. They’re sitting on the couch, on the back of the couch and on every chair and every surface. They have built little shelves on the wall to make additional seating. All 100 people have a place to be.
Then? all at once, at exactly 830am every single one decides they would *rather* be in a *different* place in your bedroom.
That is how it is.
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to understand New York City please imagine 100 people in your bedroom. Yet, somehow all 100 of them have found a way to be comfortable. They’re sitting on the couch, on the back of the couch and on every chair and every surface. They have built little shelves on the wall to make additional seating. All 100 people have a place to be.
Then? all at once, at exactly 830am every single one decides they would *rather* be in a *different* place in your bedroom.
That is how it is.
@futurebird I think I’ll sleep on the living room sofa.
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to understand New York City please imagine 100 people in your bedroom. Yet, somehow all 100 of them have found a way to be comfortable. They’re sitting on the couch, on the back of the couch and on every chair and every surface. They have built little shelves on the wall to make additional seating. All 100 people have a place to be.
Then? all at once, at exactly 830am every single one decides they would *rather* be in a *different* place in your bedroom.
That is how it is.
@futurebird I'm failing to visualize the metaphor because—
How big is this bedroom?! There's a couch, multiple chairs, space for shelving, and then room for more than a few people to move without injuring one another....
This must be a whole house.
But okay, a hundred people in my house who are somehow willingly crammed in and not all dying within a few days, maybe because we're talking about the whole property including the yard and the residents have friends on the outside who are growing food, handling supply runs, and taking care of other necessary services like managing raw materials for repairs and waste management.
This makes me wonder about what supports NYC. Which states and countries are its major trade partners? Where is its water coming from?
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@futurebird I'm failing to visualize the metaphor because—
How big is this bedroom?! There's a couch, multiple chairs, space for shelving, and then room for more than a few people to move without injuring one another....
This must be a whole house.
But okay, a hundred people in my house who are somehow willingly crammed in and not all dying within a few days, maybe because we're talking about the whole property including the yard and the residents have friends on the outside who are growing food, handling supply runs, and taking care of other necessary services like managing raw materials for repairs and waste management.
This makes me wonder about what supports NYC. Which states and countries are its major trade partners? Where is its water coming from?
Our watershed is the very best part of NY state. The city extends into the mountains and has an excellent water supply. Now the industries? The ugliest and largest one is "the financial sector" basically the stock market, banks, and financial services. We manufacture and structure loans and debit.
Entertainment is another huge export.
We also have real manufacturing of, you know, objects you can touch: home fixtures, flooring, elevators, lots of things for buildings.
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Our watershed is the very best part of NY state. The city extends into the mountains and has an excellent water supply. Now the industries? The ugliest and largest one is "the financial sector" basically the stock market, banks, and financial services. We manufacture and structure loans and debit.
Entertainment is another huge export.
We also have real manufacturing of, you know, objects you can touch: home fixtures, flooring, elevators, lots of things for buildings.
Beyond that you have "import export" or sourcing goods and products from around the world and arranging for them to go where they can be sold for nice profits. This used to be more literal with all of the imports coming into NYC and getting sold here too, but it's been streamlined.
Nonetheless I think there are THREE major ports and they are full of container ships.
Our last product is NYC itself. People want to live here very badly and will pay a lot for that.
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