[lovich]

This guy thinks a tax on second homes in fucking NYC is going to disproportionately harm the middle class.

He is economically illiterate.

Edit: scratch that, he also mentioned leaving a rent controlled apartment because of a crabs in a bucket mentality. I think he’s lying to push his own political agenda which appears to be that of the rich never paying taxes.

I’ll lol if he’s some pleb like most of us and is just running defense for his “betters”

[smallmancontrov]

Or economically literate and malicious. Many such cases.

[cybercatgurrl]

many people are convinced on some level that things are the way they have to be for a reason. lots of people internalise capitalism. it’s a way to rectify the cognitive dissonance

[lovich]

It’s nothing to do about capitalism. It’s just being deceitful or ignorant to reality. It’s one of the most expensive areas for land and homes on the planet. Owning multiple units means you are definitionally not in the middle class.

You can be in that cohort and not necessarily be the 1%, 0.1%, etc but you are not the middle.