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Rich people don't spend enough on books and NYC is rapidly becoming nothing but rich people. Going to be awkward when no one is around who can do their laundry

• coldtea 8y ago
  >Rich people don't spend enough on books and NYC is rapidly becoming nothing but rich people. 1) As if poor places are bookstore heaves and e.g. working class suburbs are full of reading people? 2) Unless this is an American peculiarity, that wouldn't explain rich people in Zurich, Paris, London, Vienna, Dublin, etc, which read quite a lot historically. The kind of rich that don't read are some nouveaux-rich gaudy types.
  • ratling 8y ago
    This isn’t a bookstore problem in NYC/SanFran/etc. It’s an, “everything that needs not rich workers to function,” problem. COL has gotten so stupid that workers have to commute multiple hours to do modestly paid work (everything from cleaning to office work). Eventually it’s unsustainable. When you have to live so far out that transit costs exceed what you need to eat and have a roof over your head you look elsewhere (or a lot earlier than that if you can swing it). I’m seriously expecting company housing/servants quarters to become a thing again in some places. And for businesses to move elsewhere which is already happening. Probably not the big 5 but a whole lot of smaller entities.