[RC_ITR]

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.

[JamesBarney]

In a well functioning city you just build more buildings so you can have tourists and locals.

[RC_ITR]

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.