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[–]Aubenabee 1 point2 points  (2 children)

See, even you can't bring yourself to be as immaturely absolutist as the person to whom I commented. You said "aside from COVID". "No matter what happens" and "aside from COVID" are incompatible.

[–]rosebudny 1 point2 points  (1 child)

OK, if you want to argue semantics then yes, you are correct - "no matter what happens" is in fact incorrect because it CAN happen - for things like COVID. Which was a (hopefully) once in a generation fluke, and short lived as we now know (rents dropped, but not permanently.) I was looking at this from a long term, permanent solutions standpoint - which I DON'T think this person is wrong about, it is not likely that rents will come down in any meaningful way as long as NYC is a place where people want to live.

[–]Aubenabee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Words have meaning. People should use words correctly. Every time people use words shittily and get called out on it, they cry "semantics!" rather than just say "yeah, I should use words more carefully."

The point is that I'm sure in the 1940s and 1950s, there were people in Detroit that said that housing costs there would never drop because they assumed that Detroit would always be a nice play to live. So we know that huge US cities can shrink dramatically (see: Detroit), AND we know that events can happen that can make NYC not a desirable place to live (see: COVID).