• Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Wait… NYC doesn’t have those huge underground bins yet?

    IME those are pretty common in even smaller cities in Europe. Even the UK has them in plenty of cities. Frees up a lot of space and you don’t need to empty them as much.

    America really is weird sometimes. Imagine being rich as sin, buying a multi-million dollar property in NYC, then being ok with the neighbourhood around that property smelling like someone died after fucking a dumpster filled with fish, because you’re ideologically opposed to even a small tax hike.

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      5 days ago

      90% of tax money in the past evaporated for

      1. subsidies for large corporations
      2. fixing roads for people living upstate in the middle of nowhere
      3. corrupt / shady contracts that never get fulfilled

      This left us in a huge deficit with 0 public infrastructure improvements for decades.

      People werent ok with it, but the billionaires running things lived upstate or in gated communities.

      :•|

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      NYC has a lot of old infrastructure beneath the roads. Like a LOT. It’s improbable in most places because of cost. I’d be surprised if there was any soil left in mahattan at all

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      That multi-million dollar property comes with a climate controlled underground garage so they don’t have to smell the poors ever. Checkmate