Friday, August 7, 2020

Premature Schadenfreude


There's been a lot of chuckling on the right side of the blogosphere since Governor Cuomo begged wealthy New Yorkers to come back to the city, and bring their tax money with them. "Ha! After a few months of lower taxes, no crime, and friendly neighbors, they'll never come back. Blue New York will die on the vine."

That won't happen. The day after the Pandemic is officially over and the lockdowns are ended -- November 4 if the Dems win the election, later if they don't -- the one-percenters will come flocking back. Yes, it's true: there's nothing an investment banker or an ad agency exec can do from his Manhattan office that he can't do from an office in Rensselaer, Indiana. But that's been true for a couple of decades now.

The thing is, they will want to be around people who know how important they are. Yes, they'd be noticed in Rensselaer: "Sure, that's the rich couple that bought the old Ledeen place and fixed it up; isn't it nice they're sponsoring the Food Drive?" But they wouldn't be as important as the football coach or the minister.

Human Nature for the win, once again.


5 comments:

edutcher said...

They can be found in Rensselaer IN, too.

Especially if a lot of them move there.

ndspinelli said...

Dispersing rich asshole NYers around the country ain't bad, unless a bunch congregate in your town.

chickelit said...
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chickelit said...

Wealthy New Yorkers may indeed come back, but it's hard for an outsider to believe that there won't be political changes. Such a change is part of New York history too and until that happens again, it's not hard for an outsider like me to conclude that they've brought all of their woes upon themselves. That goes for Cailfornia as well.

edutcher said...

Did the rich come back to Baaston?