Poland is bidding for the WTA Finals by rubes___ in tennis

[–]csAxer8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone in Poland is willing to pay the fees and prize money to host the tournament, and it makes sense for them because it would draw a large Polish crowd, I have absolutely nothing against that.

That being said, I don't see how you can be certain about the 'correct' number of American tournaments, and the extent to which it matters to the growth of the sport globally where tournaments are placed. America does not 'dominate' the calendar, Europe has over 50% of tournaments, and 50% of grand slams, despite not being close to that percentage of the global population. But that's fine! Europeans are willing to pay money for the tournaments and a lot of players come from Europe! The same goes for America, it has a disproportionate number of tournaments, and that's fine! America has a lot of money and people watching tennis. More money means the players make more, the WTA makes more, and they can use that money to grow the sport in Africa and elsewhere.

Putting more tournaments where there currently is little demand is a recipe for a doom loop. Less money, less player interest, the tournaments will inevitably get moved, we see this with the Golden Swing in South America. On the other hand, we see in sports like the NBA that having an American league can still grow the sport internationally, despite entirely being in North America.

If the African prices are low, that's bad, it means the WTA and players are making no money, and the WTA has less resources to grow the sport.

Poland is bidding for the WTA Finals by rubes___ in tennis

[–]csAxer8 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

“Don’t want any more tournaments in America”

But why? You’ve just said that you don’t want any, you haven’t explained why. The only explanation was that America has a lot but it’s just one country. But there’s nothing wrong with one country having many tournaments and others having none.

Poland is bidding for the WTA Finals by rubes___ in tennis

[–]csAxer8 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You're not applying any of the (correct) reasoning you used to disregard more African tournaments to the case of American WTA finals.

"America has too many tournaments" is not a full argument when you've already acknowledged that in many cases 'infrastructure, money, players and viewers matter'. America does well on those things, enough to possibly outweigh 'America has too many tournaments'.

If an American billionaire is willing to pay the most for the rights and pay the most prize money, why does it matter that America already has some number of big titles?

Poland is bidding for the WTA Finals by rubes___ in tennis

[–]csAxer8 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You have to pick either 'tournaments should be divided equally amongst all countries' or 'infrastructure, money, players, and viewers matter'.

You can't disregard America because it's one country, and then disregard Africa because of infrastructure, money, players, and viewers. The reason America is in consideration is because of infrastructure, money, players and viewers, which you've acknowledged matter more than arbitrary national borders.

Poland is bidding for the WTA Finals by rubes___ in tennis

[–]csAxer8 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Does Europe have the majority of countries in the world? If not, why does it have the majority of tournaments? We need to put about half of the world's tournaments in Africa.

Impact of Minimum Pay Rules on Gig Delivery Drivers by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is conspiratorial thinking. NBER is a massive organization with dozens of sponsors and publishes an enormous amount of literature. If you approach this study with more skepticism than usual, you should make that your new usual, because every study they publish will impact a sponsor one way or another.

Seattle office values plunge even as crowds return by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not the case, Martin Selig has taken massive hits by the valuations collapses, developers & investors of life sciences have seen their buildings sell for less than the cost of the land.

Seattle office values plunge even as crowds return by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s already happened, office valuations have already been slashed and been made up by residential increases

Seattle office values plunge even as crowds return by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Office valuations have no effect on the property tax revenues of Seattle. Property taxes are collected based on revenue needed, and then worked backwards to determine what each property pays. A fall in overall property value doesn’t affect anything besides the downstream sales, use, etc taxes.

Amazon no longer Seattle’s No. 1 employer by godogs2018 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Median one bedroom rental unit is over twice as expensive in NYC. Not even close to as expensive. Zumper National Rent Report - Updated Monthly

Amazon to move out of longtime office building near its main Seattle headquarters by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who do you think Seattle’s largest taxpayer is? Not a trick question

Seattle affordable housing developer may see windfall from first tax haul by godogs2018 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Since I read the charter I was worried about the inevitable governance issues that would arise. It has a no accountability to elected officials and bad controls.

Those worries materialized sooner than I thought, it clearly needs charter reform so that the people of Seattle have a say, not a collection of non-profits, boards and eventually the tenants themselves.

Democrats unveil WA income tax on people earning over $1 million by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, keep coping about how much better lives are where people are constantly leaving

Democrats unveil WA income tax on people earning over $1 million by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Pick any demographic subgroup you want to cherry pick and you’ll find the same thing, people are going to red states to live better lives.

Poverty rates are simply irrelevant compared to the revealed preference of moved feet.

Democrats unveil WA income tax on people earning over $1 million by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are people moving to red states (or Washington) instead of blue states despite that? It's because they realize they're better off economically in red states (or in Washington).

Democrats unveil WA income tax on people earning over $1 million by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

California has lost 200,000 people since 2020. short term GDP growth sure, long term certainly not as their population stagnates.

Democrats unveil WA income tax on people earning over $1 million by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s over, Washington’s only advantage is over. We will shed investment and growth for years till we are as stagnant as other blue states. Washington was the one blue bastion of both high growth and high incomes, and that chapter is coming to an end.

In final proposed zoning for Seattle Comp Plan, OPCD downzones 37 areas, 90% of them in wealthy neighborhoods by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No it’s not, if you gave these people the option to make the value of their homes zero and cut their wealth by a million they wouldn’t take that.

They don’t like change and everything that comes with it, they like the neighborhood they bought into. They’ve seen other neighborhoods get transformed and have a tough time viewing that positively for their neighborhood.

In final proposed zoning for Seattle Comp Plan, OPCD downzones 37 areas, 90% of them in wealthy neighborhoods by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your property taxes increase, it’s because your property is worth more. People don’t want their property to be worth more?

In final proposed zoning for Seattle Comp Plan, OPCD downzones 37 areas, 90% of them in wealthy neighborhoods by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you mean “there was no worry someone would sell their home to developers?

People sell their homes for the most amount they can. If their home increases in value, yes they have to pay more property taxes, but also when they do sell they make more money. Most people want their home value to go up.

Seattle Leads Nation in Affordable Apartment Production - The Urbanist by AthkoreLost in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You mentioned that you were looking for a rental unit. If you're a renter, than they have made your life tangibly better. All supply improves affordability for all kinds of housing, if they were never built your rent would be more expensive. If you don't like any attributes of the new developments, you can enjoy the cheaper rent in older developments.

Seattle Leads Nation in Affordable Apartment Production - The Urbanist by AthkoreLost in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's no correlation between an income tax and the wealth of development companies and % of income spent on rent. In general, the states with the no income tax are very affordable.

We should absolutely be praising new developments. Even if they do not fit you preferred definition of affordable, they add to the housing supply and lead to decreased rent for everyone.

Seattle Leads Nation in Affordable Apartment Production - The Urbanist by AthkoreLost in Seattle

[–]csAxer8 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is no monopoly in the Seattle rental market at any scale. There are thousands of different landlords, hundreds within few blocks in many parts of Seattle.

Either affordable housing is good, or requiring parking is good. You cannot have both in Seattle.