It makes me so sad to see how many people chime in, to sign on to this complete willingness to take some obvious exceptions & caveats & use them to decide there

It makes me so sad to see how many people chime in, to sign on to this complete willingness to take some obvious exceptions & caveats & use them to decide there's no problem, that everything is fine. The effort gone through to wring out excuses for having no empathy, for ignoring the truth is revilesome. I had a number of friends who sometime after highschool or college moved to NYC area & lived in ridiculously illegal cramped over-stuffed loud living spaces & struggled to eat, to be in the city. Struggling for jobs & work but feeling like they had to be in the city. These are mostly quite privileged folks who had good educations at good public schools, and still struggling to stay standing at all. NYC is absurd to me, is shocking in extreme in it's cost of living, limited housing options, in how hard it can be to get by. There's a huge question in my mind of how many people fare & make it, transplants & many many natives raised there. The findings here completely lines up with my expectation & the unfortunately stark reality of life in such an amazing place. There may be some light grift, and some higher scale grift such as buying whole appartments, but by god, it hardly seems to change how hard it can be to find place, to gain income of sufficient scale for that grift to be of any real scale.