Comment by tacostakohashi

6 hours ago

Don't worry, just today the mayor has announced a plan to fix it:

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/04/mayor-mamdani...

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guywithahat  6 hours ago

"With this new program we will be able to measure the problem more closely than ever before!" - a NYC bureaucrat somewhere, probably

mc32  6 hours ago

I worry it may end up like the ‘70s when poor policy started to device large companies to seek greener pastures for their HQ and operations elsewhere.

Sometimes politicians think they have them by their noses and can turn up reaction to fix ineptitude, corruption or both but sadly for the politicians people and businesses can vote with their feet.

  • collabs  6 hours ago

    This only works if we the people let them. For example, I hear about the example of Kansas City — kcmo vs kcks — and I can't help but wonder, why do we allow companies to do this? It should be trivial for the people of Kansas and Missouri to come together and say we won't allow a race to the bottom.

    • KK7NIL  5 hours ago

      > why do we allow companies to do this? It should be trivial for the people of Kansas and Missouri to come together and say we won't allow a race to the bottom.

      This is prisoner's dilemma 101.

      Or, less cynically, cities compete in a free market where they try to compete for a limited amount of capital investment; there's nothing wrong with a city offering more attractive terms to be more business friendly, if they so wish.

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  • dangus  5 hours ago

    I love how this thread is talking about bad policy without even discussing any aspect of the policy that is bad.

    Perhaps we should pull our heads out of the Fox News punch bowl to take a breath.

    Y’all act like democratic socialist policy can’t work even though we’ve spent the last entire history of our country trying the exact opposite strategy only to have it not work out at all. The current status quo which is obviously not satisfactory didn’t come from socialists or leftists running the country.

    Cue the “This is the world under communism” memes that are literally pictures of the current world under unfettered under-regulated capitalism.

    The boogeyman of “the businesses will move out of NYC” is hilariously out of touch. Where will all these companies get the employees they depend on if they move operations to Kansas? NYC contains nearly the entire population of Ohio within its boroughs. Where do you propose these companies find employees if they all leave NYC?

    You’re making the classic business bootlicking mistake of flipping the needs pyramid upside down. We don’t need to beg for businesses to stick around, businesses literally depend on regular working class people to survive. They are worthless without our labor and our dollars as customers.