Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "New York Times finally discusses the death of downtown NYC; but won't explain why" video.

  1. If Escobar taught us anything, you buy $600/ft2 real estate to launder cocaine brick money lol. He had hundreds of houses purchased just to store cash in, and supposedly at one point he was spending over $2500USD/month just in rubber bands to roll up counted cash.
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  2. The image I have in my head of NYC is Crocodile Dundee, those scenes where the sidewalks are just giant seas of shoulder to shoulder people. This scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoNuz1gjQo
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  3. Unfortunately, the "NEW NORMAL" they keep touting sucks EVEN MORE.
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  4.  @p.s.shnabel3409  At Least Bezos and Zuckerberg, Musk and even Gates, the wealthiest people on Earth, came from middle class obscurity. None of them were born into wealth. Hell, Bezos was the child of a divorced single mother who worked several jobs to raise him. Elon immigrated to the US and is now the wealthiest African-American in the world, but he grew up with divorced middle-class parents and spent young adulthood broke working odd jobs. I'm not blowing these guys, mind you, I'm making the point that this is still a nation of opportunity, and four men at least doing what they've done shows a pattern. Contrast those names with the names of some kids you've never heard of who were born to generational wealth of billionaire parents, THOSE are the people you'll never have anything in common with.
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  5. "There's always money in the b̶a̶n̶a̶n̶a̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶!̶ ̶ Gift Shop!" NO TOUCHING!
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  6. THAT'S a street in downtown Manhattan on a late summer day? Holy shit, now, it was pre-pandemic, but I stayed a week in downtown St Louis City over 4th of July 2019, a city FAR, FAR smaller, and the streets were PACKED with people. Manhattan in this video looks like St Louis City at night lol. Not a good sign.
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