With coming free groceries, health care and bus rides.
Socialist workers’ utopia.
They wish they could vote for Mamdani again. What a guy.
Will have to wait for Newsom in a couple of years.
Showing my age here, I know, but I remember when making a six figure salary required a skill, trade or profession. I also remember when that was a lot of money.
Why did I bother with college and learning skills?
Insanity, people will soon be paying 1,500 a night in NYC for a 2 star Best Western.
What did their Union dues increase to?
And Mamdani with take half of it..............
A self hlep guru once explained how the seemingly unfair system allowing the lowest paid maintenance man to make some small amount relative the highest paid CEO and CFO on the top floor of the skyscraper.
He said the amount of value to the company varies with each level of employment. Keeping the place clean by housekeepers and the HVAC and door hinges and electrical system working has value. But choosing the products to market or the advertising to buy may make or break a fortune, so the work by the people in charge is of higher monetary value.
Socialists just expect all the risk of capital and choices made by the CEOs to be paid at the same rate as the housekeepers get paid. Otherwise “unfair”.
The following source says that the average teacher salary is $68K.
https://govsalaries.com/salaries/teacher-salary-lookup/new-york
I guess teachers don’t have as good a union.
And those same workers will in the next news cycle complain about the NYC cost of living as in their economic ignorance (perpetuated by their union leaders) their wages, just like taxes, are an integral part of what generates the cost of living where they live and work. All employers costs and all local and state taxes (costs on individuals and businesses) feed into the local cost of living.
Where unions and tax and spend governments prevail it is an endless vicious cycle of risings costs followed by rising demands for more taxes and higher wages, resulting again in rising costs, and full circle to the errors of governments and unions that feed the rising costs. Its a race no one wins.
My chance of staying even 10 minutes in New York City is approximately nil.
Due to the cost of living in NYC, 100k in NYC = 55k in Jackson, MS.
I remember sleeping on the floor of Penn Station in NYC because I had missed the last train out for the night and had a long wait for the first train in the morning. It was fine; there were maybe a dozen of us in the same fix. At least in airports, there are chairs.
That may soon be the only affordable way to visit NYC. I was there a few weeks ago; very early train up and last train back on the same day. Both cheap given the hour.
I also slept on a bench in 30th Street Station in Philly for the same reason. A police officer woke me up in the wee hours and told me that if I wanted to wake up alive I should move over yonder. The section I was in had emptied out after I dozed off.
Ah, college days. College student travel. College student wallet.
Hotels in NYC were already very salty.
What will be the price now?
Can anybody afford it?
And most took good paying jobs from Amercan citizens.
Why stay in college? Why go to night school?
Gonna be different this time?
Well, no longer need to leave a tip on the pillow when they earn 2x my retirement.
“The hotel industry needs migrant workers...”
Don’t forget to leave a tip.
100 grand for a hotel maid.
Wow. I wonder when Vassar will roll this out as a major...?