A place to talk about New York on Farcaster

are we cooked?

it's interesting how so many people in tech care about the nyc mayoral race and so many don't even live here

did people always care this much about the mayoral election because i never really tracked it

At a party tonight with politically active San Franciscans and we were just thinking... wow, NYC is cooked.

Garry Tan

are we cooked?

it's interesting how so many people in tech care about the nyc mayoral race and so many don't even live here

did people always care this much about the mayoral election because i never really tracked it

https://x.com/garrytan/status/1937381039929983129?s=46&t=btIkh173tAV3h-PQAK4osg

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It’s kind of weird and off putting ngl. Wealthy tech elites all spouting about the end of NYC while patting each other on the back, feels very “we are so much smarter than these plebs in NYC”. 

In no ways can they understand what normal people are dealing with and so they rather than try, they just cry on X that “NYC is cooked”

This completely misses almost 300 years of history. A large part of American political politics has been New York City's outsized centrality ever since it was a major trading hub of the Hudson River in the 1700s. It's almost preordained that San Francisco new money tech elites want to usurp New York elite political power and move it to new cities.

Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago have been praying for New Yorks downfall for a hundred years. San Francisco can now join the party.