Comment by jjav

4 hours ago

Surely you know this, but the rich are paying less percentage taxes relative to the money they have.

I'm familiar with the concept of crabs in a bucket, yes. That's why I left New York and abandoned my rent controlled apartment to do so.

  • Oh shit, I didn’t realize the billionaires who can have multiple homes in Manhattan are crabs in the same bucket as us.

    Luckily the law is much more egalatarian and bars the rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges or stealing bread.

    • NYC only has 154 billionaires. The percentage of NYC's second homes owned by NYC billionaires is fractional (59,000 total units).

      No, this will disproportionately negatively affect middle-class people and families and fuck them hard.

      > I didn’t realize the billionaires ... are crabs in the same bucket as us.

      All of us go to the same place in the end my dude. Life is too short and too hard to spend all your time living by comparisons. I'm sure the people you're worried about are just as miserable for other reasons.

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