Even if they take all the money from it and dump it into the ocean if it reduces car congestion in the target areas it's a good thing.

Okay... even if you got rid of all those people you're still well short of $350m

Ironically you'll find lots of people saying the government shut down psychedelics in the first place because they were terrified of the anti-establishment mode of thought it put so many people into.

So not fascism then

Well we're largely saying similar things then. What I imagine makes this difficult is that we're obviously not operating in a bubble. We're essentially competing with the rest of the state/country where these developers can operate to make money. If developing in NYC goes from "very profitable" to "sort of profitable" then we'll just see less development in general.

It seems like there's a balancing act to play here where it's not enough to just disincentivize luxury only developments but actively improve the profit margins for market-rate & below market-rate development. Whenever I read about the state of things here it usually sounds like what has happened is the city has either intentionally or not put developers in a position where luxury developments are really the only appealing thing to build.

I would think there's a risk that if we also make those less profitable then they're not just gonna do market-rate and below market-rate developments, they'll just slow down development all together.

If it's wildly profitable to build affordable I'm pretty sure people would be doing it and profiting from it.

I'm not a real estate developer apologist or anything, but in general I trust their ability to make a shit load of money and if they're saying the best way to make money is to build luxury then I believe them.

Greedy people will make money however they can. If it was extremely profitable to build affordable housing they would be doing it. It's on the city to change the environment the developers are operating in so that it is profitable to build affordable housing.

> Imagine if you could reserve a cabin to travel to and from most places in the city? Would you rather have a private cabin then an Uber or packed bus or open train car? > > Electrification will lead to a seamless trip to any place and a safe journey home for most New Yorkers. Blended surface to under transportation and "pod" travel will revolutionize our transportation and package delivery needs making it cheaper and more reliable.

What exactly are you talking about here? Making electric vehicles doesn't really imply we're fundamentally changing the vehicles or method of transportation.

>I just can’t imagine someone looking at the schedule and deciding to hire two people.

Well I just can't imagine someone expecting to fly on Christmas Eve and it be a good time. I think it's safe to say that almost every individual you run into for the whole trip does not want to be doing what they're doing. Of course it's not gonna be awesome.