A Shoebox Under The Bed
Lifted from the comments, a revealing choice of words:
Also, while there is nothing wrong… Again, a revealing tone, I think.
Mr Yglesias, since you ask, is currently said to earn around $1.4 million a year, chiefly from his 18,000 Substack subscribers. It therefore seems quite likely that he has savings and investments of some sort. I wonder what it is that he thinks happens to that money while he’s terribly busy complaining about the rich.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
“You can’t even afford a large pizza!”
“People used to have their own faces.”
Ah, the urbanist fantasy of the automobile-less city.
My parents rode the streetcar a lot in the 1930’s and 40’s. It was slow. It was inconvenient, especially when you had to walk a ways to a line and then wait. It was difficult to impossible when you had a lot to carry. They got a car as soon as they could afford one. And a second car when that became affordable.
There are still times when I use public transit (rail) because it is faster and cheaper than driving. But those advantages disappear when I have multiple destinations rather than a simple in-and-back. And riding the city’s light rail is dirty enough and unsafe enough that I’ll scornfully insult anyone who tells me I should use it.