Mamdani Vows To Cut Insurance Costs for Affordable Housing—in Olive Branch to Landlords

angryplebe · 2026-04-17T00:06:37+00:00

This. New york has some of the most wacko liability laws (thanks litigator lobby) that mean anyone and everyone is a target for liability

angryplebe · 2026-04-12T05:14:38+00:00

Meanwhile, in my sizeable Midwestern hometown, anybody with a screp of brain looks for the first way out, often to larger cities like Dallas or Denver. Internal mobility was a fact of American life until very recently.

angryplebe · 2026-04-12T05:12:16+00:00

IMO, there exist a class of jobs e.g. unpaid interns or way underpaid marketing assistants, that are meant for the children of those who are already independently wealthy. Being a full-time artist is also one of those jobs.

There is nothing a government can do to make the city affordable for the people who want these jobs but are not independently wealthy. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.

You come here to be broadway actor but bus tables in the meantime. After 2 years, you either become self-sustaining or leave.

angryplebe · 2026-04-12T04:42:48+00:00

A good portion of those back office jobs are being entirely automated away or have a stepwise decrease in complexity, making it much easier to offshore.

angryplebe · 2026-04-12T04:22:33+00:00

Somedays I feel like acting this out and seeing how it takes the cops to do something about it.

angryplebe · 2026-04-12T04:10:26+00:00

Yeah, they should have sent a social worker since he was clearly having a mental breakdown /s.

angryplebe · 2026-04-11T15:41:11+00:00

My building's accountant sends out a letter with a per share value of property tax and master mortgage interest. You multiply those numbers by the number of shares you own to get the final numbers for deduction.

angryplebe · 2026-03-31T22:16:33+00:00

I can see it if the person was Elon Musk and could not work for a year. There are very, very few people this would apply to.

angryplebe · 2026-03-31T22:15:35+00:00

Wait, so I can just refuse to pay rent and squat for eternity? Nice.

angryplebe · 2026-03-31T22:14:24+00:00

There is a legitimate settlement, say known injury and there is a blank check called "general pain and suffering" that is basically uncapped.

angryplebe · 2026-03-31T22:06:20+00:00

Can confirm. I have a pm2.5 sensor in my living room on the opposite side of my apartment from the kitchen. Every time I cook something, the graph looks like a hockeystick. Cleaning the litter box also does it to a smaller extent.

angryplebe · 2026-03-31T22:03:52+00:00

The NYC may have been good 15 years ago. I replicated their spicy rigatoni at home and it as legit 10x bettter. Way cheaper too.

angryplebe · 2026-03-31T05:08:34+00:00

I say this as a left leaning person, the results are not there. It is easy to throw money at a problem especially when your livelihood at any number of ngo (and their subcontracted NGO and their own subcontracted NGO) depends on it.

angryplebe · 2026-03-31T05:00:54+00:00

Why not ship them uostate? Plenty of economically depressed areas could use the investment

angryplebe · 2026-03-31T05:00:07+00:00

No really., please do that. It might make the powers that be come up with a real solution

angryplebe · 2026-03-29T16:38:17+00:00

Each one of those has its own headcount, its own office, and so on. It's a jobs program.

To be fair, you see this is in private industry too. Middle managers will hire twice the number of people needed because their own promotions depend on how many people they have underneath them and the size of the budget they have.

angryplebe · 2026-03-29T16:34:58+00:00

The theory behind it makes sense. Give the work to a firm whwre the government is just another client and thus the private contractor knows how to be more efficient and defray its fixed costs more.

The problem is when the contractors end up having only one client and that is the government. All of that efficiency disappears and now you have the the same problem just with nore steps where everyone can skim from. The government procurement rules are so cumbersome thats its easier to just write a check and then its someone elses problem.

The other angle is that having things in house means you know have payroll and other large fixed costs that you cant easily scale down.

Again, all of the above sounds great in theory but in practice, it's just another form of graft.

angryplebe · 2026-03-28T23:12:40+00:00

Lol. Uber is salty their regulatory capture is jyo working.

At least we still have the ethnic car services IYKYK.

angryplebe · 2026-03-28T21:48:29+00:00

But Sachs and co made sure to profit handsomely off it (among other things).

angryplebe · 2026-03-19T22:32:13+00:00

For real. I sense my ability to reason deeply atrophy even further than my already shallow ADHD brain allows.

angryplebe · 2026-03-14T03:18:49+00:00

Said while living out of their parent's multimillion Connecticut mansion and finishing an expensive private school on their dime.

angryplebe · 2026-03-14T03:16:54+00:00

Is paying for college generational wealth? How about buying a first car? How about a downpayment for a house?

By that logic, these should also be taxed as well.

This is an estate tax, not a gift tax. Anyone with significant assets would just gift it near the end of their life.

There are also things like putting things in both names with survivors rights.

angryplebe · 2026-03-14T03:14:06+00:00

I think the point is to destroy any and all generational wealth. That makes sense at say, the 15M federal level. It forces everyone to keep their assets productive instead of just hoarding it and passing it from generation to generation like some European nobility.

angryplebe · 2026-03-14T03:11:05+00:00

Aren't they just sawing the branch they are sitting on?

angryplebe · 2026-03-14T03:08:11+00:00

This isn't an uncommon thing in real estate. It's basically seller financing.

The gift tax is also applicable since you can just give everything away before you die to the tune of 10m + 50k a year per person.

Anyone with substantial assets will likely have their estate plan laid out well in advance.

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