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Not really. I mean if you want to have a stupendously high bar of confidence, and continually raise it so that no action is ever necessary or possible, then yes
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
Not really. I mean if you want to have a stupendously high bar of confidence, and continually raise it so that no action is ever necessary or possible, then yes you need to spend many more years to understand every nuanced economic detail.
For me idk, I've lived a lot of my life in poverty and on the edge of it, and large swathes of my social and family communities still do. I don't need more proof. It's very obvious that most workers are not compensated adequately and this data confirms it unless you really really don't want it to.
- gen220 4y agoI agree that we don't need the full picture to take meaningful action. I thought it was important to bring attention to the grey economy aspect, because so much of NYC would literally not function at all without it, and its existence and scale does have a meaningful impact on how you interpret this report (i.e. that the report is directionally correct, but its unbelievable magnitude is evidence that we can't reduce something as complex as poverty to a single number, especially when that number is essentially employee and employer-reported income).