even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

it's orange county

A fire last fall that threatened the Getty Museum and Bel-Air started in a hillside homeless encampment, drawing calls from some of the richest Los Angeles neighborhoods for the government to do more to address the issue. Downtown businesses also burned as a result of cooking fires that got out of control in homeless enclaves.

[...]

Days later, a homeless man walked into a steakhouse in Ventura, north of Los Angeles, and fatally stabbed a 35-year-old man as he ate dinner, his 5-year-old daughter sitting on his lap.

quelle quiddity

the city of los angeles wants to build housing for the homeless in koreatown and everyone there is, to quote ch3rry g14z3r of kcrw, "up in arms" (kinda chuckled at the choice of words the ghostwriters decided to use)

whooo boy

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/style/canal-street-fashion.html

Replace some of the tourists with Brooklyn hipsters (who also wear fanny packs — but ironically)

writing

“The idea for Canal Street Market came about because we were thinking about what the neighborhood really needed and what we saw was a huge demand for exciting, new food concepts,”

fuckin love concepts

how about a knuckle sandwich

kind of hard to imagine that there is part of manhattan that hasn't been gentrified?

http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-economic-development-low-unemployment-wages.html

There's actually not much wrong with this article and in the end it gets to the right point, I just find it funny how gingerly he has to approach it, taking paragraphs before he can cautiously point out that maybe employers need to pay more if they can't fill jobs.

His understatement and tact somehow make it even more of a masterful pwn of basically an entire generation of capitalists

http://www.businessinsider.com/posh-people-taking-mdma-with-cheese-in-brieing-trend-2018-5

The unbearable whiteness of brieing

The one from the weekend that was like “how the bass player from girls vs boys spends his Sunday in fort Greene” fucking killed me

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/nyregion/how-johnny-temple-book-publisher-and-rocker-spends-his-sundays.html

I don't mind it as much as some of these, I feel like most of us would look like assholes (or borderline suicide cases) if shanghaied into publishing a daily journal - you can either put a chipper bullshit spin on it or calmly note how you spent two hours staring at your office/cubicle wall.

Based on his and his wife's occupation and the fact that he moved to Ft. Greene in 1990, he's probably not exactly the ruling class unless he comes from money. I don't think you get rich from those kinds of bands or from having a niche book publisher, although I did just learn from googling that they published Go The Fuck to Sleep and that was probably something of a hit.

If he owns property in Fort Greene (possible for someone who moved there in 1990) then that alone could make him a... some low number percenter, right?

I would be shocked if "Go The Fuck To Sleep" has not made them a cool million or more, that thing is huuuuge. More legit source of wealth than most, tbf.

The unbearable whiteness of brieing

underappreciated post imo

That NYT article. Who is scared of canal st? It's throbbing with tourists. Ok, I answered my own question.

Granted, I love food halls and it's weird that NYC doesn't have that many, like they do in asia. And I super hope all the asians get their money with jacked up rents.

i think that johnny temple thing was just designed to make me feel like a schlub. easy to hate on the aspirational brooklyn hepcat superhero. he seems like a nice enough guy. he went to college with my wife.

plus, house of gvsb is a super-cool album.

i did not realize that gvsb was a going concern

Me either

plus, house of gvsb is a super-cool album.

yeah, this was my favourite album when i was 15 and it still whips ass iirc

Not much angers me more than when people mobilize neighborhood opposition to homeless shelters: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/opinion/editorials/park-savoy-homeless-shelter-manhattan.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

...tying into the 'compassion fatigue' article above I guess

oh, and for the obligatory quid ag quote

“Yes, we live comfortably,” [midtown resident] Ms. Silverstein told me, “but he’s not sticking it to billionaires, he’s sticking it to people like myself who work 100 hours a week. We’re not bad people. We’re just trying to get ahead.”

Working 100 hours a week makes you a bad person actually

Unless you’re poor in which case I guess it makes you an alive person

Anyway, eat the rich, preferably tomorrow

“We just want to get ahead” is antisocial and depraved thinking, Ms. Silverstein

Rich people (and all MBAs and finance bros ever) lying about the amount of hours they work is my most hated thing

Capitalists feigning labor is the ultimate insult to actual labor

Rich people (and all MBAs and finance bros ever) lying about the amount of hours they work

Let's see about that. there are 168 hours in a week. If you work 100 of those hours and sleep exactly 6 hours every night, that leaves exactly 26 hours a week or 3.75 hours a day to do everything else in one's life, including eating, shitting, peeing, paying bills, buying groceries, staring at the wall, and somehow maintain one's sanity.

However, if you take one day a week off from work, that leaves exactly 2 hours distributed evenly through the other 6 days in which to cram all the rest of your non-working life. Hmmm. Seems kinda unlikely to me.

I was gonna say.

I’ve worked some seventy hour weeks before, and they nearly pushed me to the point of exhaustion.

For the six months after I graduated from high school, I worked 60 hours a week waiting tables - I lost 45 pounds and have no real memories of the six months.

They are counting the time they spend checking and responding to their work from wherever.

I simply hate the valorization of 'always working'. People who talk about how they're always on the job, married to their work, never want to retire etc. Really bums me out! Possibly related to why I'm currently unemployed...

I really enjoy being very busy at work, working weekends. I’m not going to work any more than 50 hours a week most weeks, though. Nor do I consider it a badge of honor, it’s just like an addiction.

We had a lot of 70, 80+ yr old men at my old job. They were completely useless but had the years, money and status to still make people do their bidding. Basically they were just wheeled out for clients but like, couldn't use a computer. All their admins had all their passwords. TO get them to retire they got super nice sunset retirement agreements where they could still get paid from their past clients even though they were no longer employed.

ironic, considering the source, but nevertheless

@felixsalmon
30-year-old buys a $750k place in the East Village, has a bad experience renovating it, then finds it cramped, so she sells it for $1m and buys a $2.4m place in Williamsburg instead. Your weekend hate-read: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/realestate/for-house-flippers-reality-meets-reality-tv.html

750 in the east village almost sounds reasonable.

so this whole ali watkins situation

Tech Elites Recreate Burning Man Inside Their Living Rooms

Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/style/what-is-a-soul-salon.html

I felt such a sense of deep embarrassment at just the headline, photo and caption that I couldn't read any further.

it gets worse

The Caligula stage of late capitalism is so fucking dull.

guyz she's buddies with julia allison and they co-emcee events together its 2006 all over again