Italian efficiency when it comes to coffee should be studied.
In Italy:
- Walk into a bar and look at the guy
- Un caffe
- 30 seconds later it’s ready
- Shoot it
- Leave €1
- Walk out
In the US:
- Join a line
- Wait
- Order coffee
- Answer 12 questions: Size? Milk? Roast? Sugar? Temperature? Colombia beans? Name? How do you spell it?
- $12.34
- Ask for a 20% tip. Click 5 times on a ipad to have a custom tip
- Tap phone
- ask where to send the invoice
- Wait again on a different line
- Someone call a name that sounds similar to mine
- get the coffee
- too hot, can't drink it
- finally at temperature
taste like shit
New York City real estate is being taxed to death. Transfer taxes. Mansion tax. Sky-high annual property taxes. Now another pied-à-terre tax on second homes over $5 million.
This isn’t about fairness, it’s about covering up reckless spending and a growing deficit. You cannot tax your way out of financial mismanagement.
Here’s what happens next: buyers pause, investment dries up, prices fall, development stalls, jobs disappear, and the tax base shrinks even more.
You don’t save a city by driving out capital. You destroy it…But perhaps that’s their goal?
@moseskagan You’re speaking common sense friend. We’ve been negotiating clawbacks/future commish credits if tenant defaults within a year following RCD (retail in NYC). With a good broker relationship, they agree to this. Pretty fair
Jeff Bezos wants AI to approve Miami building permits in 10 seconds:
“Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit and it should give you a yes or a no in 10 seconds. Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.”
Watching Ferrari this weekend makes John Elkann’s comments even more outrageous.
I don’t even want to think about where we would be without the genius of Charles Leclerc dragging this car to higher than where it should be.