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by JamesBarney 984 days ago
Regions do not support tourism for the sake of the tourist. They support tourism, because tourists spend lots of money which flows into the pockets of the people that work there. Tourists spend around 48 billion on the NYC economy.
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RC_ITR 984 days ago
This is always such a weird argument to me, because you know who else adds to an economy? People who live and work there.

Forcing people to commute in from Jersey City is a huge net drain on NYC's economy.

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JamesBarney 984 days ago
In a well functioning city you just build more buildings so you can have tourists and locals.
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RC_ITR 982 days ago
In a resource constrained world, we have to make trade-offs.

That is not indicative of poor functioning.

It's like saying 'a well functioning human has a six pack and reads 20 books a week.' Like sure one can do those things, but I think it's probably true of neither of us.

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