• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
    cake
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    2 years ago

    A subsidiary is when a ghoul discovers something that isn't yet commercialized

    Do you know how many molecules of air people are breathing? And yet there's a compressed air market? We're sitting on an invisible quadrillion dollar breathing subsidiary

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      A subsidiary is when a ghoul discovers something that isn’t yet commercialized

      This is literally a subsidy though. Whenver else you use land for personal or business reasons and nobody else can, you gotta cough up the beaucoup bucks, especially in place like NYC. Just not if it's for parking your car.

      Sam here is pretty good. He's not trying to grift your average joe shmoe out of more money for parking, he's about making city less car dependent.

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I get it, removed from context. But if you consider only 22% of NYC Households own a car, all the free parking and car infrastructure is genuinely mostly from people who commute in.

          • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
            cake
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            2 years ago

            I know a person who used to commute to Manhattan from somewhere in New Jersey. It was something like a 30 drive on a good day, but any type of public transportation would take over 3 hours.

            • 7bicycles [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, especially in NYC there's a real problem with being priced out of the city and being forced to car commute by car. But there's also still the problem with suburban flight and those people thinking the city should be designed for them first and foremost, which it basically is.

              It's a complex issue to tackle, but I still think Sam here makes a correct point. 88% of New Yorkians basically subsidize all kinds of car infrastructure for not only little personal gain (like commercial vehicles) but personal detriment.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      But the labor of compressing such air is where value trully relies on