@FlabSloppyknows@mattyglesias There is evidence to suggest that this Knicks team in particular doesn’t have any problem making shots in a big ass stadium.
@JHWeissmann The percentage definition falls apart when you look at it from the other side: if you have a society that’s like 90% subsistence farmers are a bunch of them middle class? Or is the middle class the petit bourgeois that makes up the top 5% in that place?
@MassJumbo The NYC MSA is absolutely huge. It includes towns in Pennsylvania and parts of NJ that are a 2.5 hour drive to the city. If you use the CSA it includes Trenton and Poughkeepsie.
@constans University towns. Princeton is kind of a suburb of NYC and/or Philly now, but it has been rich far longer than that. Also, like, does Monterey fit into either of those buckets. Kind of? Not really?
@Michael97928169@FIFABrit FIFA started wholesaling blocks to third parties for lower demand matches. Shouldn’t be that surprising, happens with concert tickets etc. all the time.
@KAErdmann@mattyglesias But wouldn't a lot of them stay if rents were falling because we were adding hundreds of thousands of units in Queens, rich people weren't pushing into Crown Heights because there were available units in Park Slope, etc.?
@KAErdmann@mattyglesias You don't think that if real estate prices (and, as a result, labor costs) were cheaper more people wouldn't want to, like, open restaurants where all the millionaires are instead of in other places?
@Noahpinion The vibe in Philly for any random regular season Eagles games is like 10x what you’re going to find in Texas with a team literally in the finals. Like, go walk around downtown *tonight* and the street life so much better than anywhere other than maybe 4-5 blocks in Austin.
@mattyglesias@patrickc Sure but that’s not why there are a million street trees within the city limits? Like, was there recently enough (last 50 years) significant active agriculture within the city limits of SF or Tokyo or whatever that can explain why they don’t look like park slope?