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

there are lots of good reasons to move to queens

feel like hippies r good w/children

I know it's tragic, having to move like .2 miles

I am seriously considering it!

and they aren't even really hippies. or new age-y either. its just when people are positive and talk about fairness i instinctively put up my misanthropic hippie shield. i'm trying to be nicer though.

they sound more like commies than hippies

its a fine line

People are weird about who they trust their kids with these days.

Remember when it was just like, "Well, you're school age, let's go to the school and register you" in like August or whatever and you went to the school nearest your house (or second nearest, if the districts were drawn oddly) and you were assigned a teacher and ate the crappy cafeteria food and kicked overused balls around on the playground over recess?

are Country Day schools rich-kid schools elsewhere in the country?

There's one in a rich part of Detroit suburbs (Grosse Pointe??) that was my high school's tennis nemesis, iirc.

"tennis nemesis" is a wonderful turn of phrase

reminds me of the store in LA called 'the merchant of tennis'

If kids grow up knowing it is important to treat others well, are willing to work and know how to solve problems, then they've been "raised right".

'right' into the hands of stalin

exeter and philips academy & c. def give you a leg up in applying to elite schools, I mean who wouldn't turn down an exeter kid, can you even imagine

lol

lol I need to proofread :\

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/7/all_brooklynbabycinnos_2012_02_17_bk.html

http://i.imgur.com/VRKKs.jpg

not nyt but give em a few days I guess

lol some stylebeat reporter is getting an earful for missing the scoop I'm guessing

hey thats the coffee shop that i live next door to

you should order one

good opportunity for original reporting

As an aside, I am beginning to wonder if there is some "Ye Olde Rustic Style Distressed Ceiling Company" somewhere in brooklyn catering to all of these shops to give them that same romantic rehabbed look.

dudes is this really new in NYC? london's been all about "babycinos" for like 5 years already. $2 is ridiculous though, here they're 50p. (not that i let my kids get them, they eat broth made from rusty nails and carrot leaves. and LIKE IT.)

NYC is incredibly behind on coffee stuff in general.

xp At least you know they're getting plenty of iron.

Contrary to popular belief, the revival of craft manufacturing isn’t just a fad for Brooklyn hipsters. (Woehrle resists the term. His beard is too short, he says.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/adam-davidson-craft-business.html

http://i.imgur.com/Jk1I5.jpg

I've had their jerky. It had szechuan peppercorns in it! good stuff.

i've trimmed their beards. they arent that short

guy is kicking himself obver that beard is too short joke right now

that article really bothers me cause every other sentence is either 'wtf' or 'otm' and its very unpleasant to read something like that

Instead, they have scrutinized the market and created customized products for less price-sensitive customers. Facebook and Apple, Starbucks and the Boston Beer Company (which makes Sam Adams lager) show that people who identify and meet untapped needs can create thousands of jobs and billions in wealth.

otm

As our economy recovers, there will be nearly infinite ways to meet custom needs at premium prices.

wtf

Meanwhile, the idea (or at least the hope) is that as China and other emerging nations develop, the United States can stay on the profitable forefront, delivering specific high-tech parts to their factories and the latest upmarket foods to their middle class.

otm

According to this view, the fracturing of industrial manufacturing, however painful, has helped prepare parts of the economy for this new course.

wtf

it's like, yeah it's def good that people can sell gourmet beef jerky to each other and I am 100% behind that happening even, but it's prob not something you can build the american economy on, also why are you talking about adam smith

Definitely not something you can build the economy on when the article says the jerky company is in the red!

I think there are also some really key differences between handmade jerky sold at retail and precision machined aerospace components sold to multibillion dollar companies that renders the term "craft manufacturing" pretty meaningless.

time was when americans actually made things

"You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make artisanal pickles in this country, build longboards with fair-trade lumber. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket."

Everyone should become yoga instructors, and that way everyone could give everyone else yoga lessons

Chris Woehrle (...) decided to become an artisanal food craftsman — any kind of artisanal food craftsman.

are there any 'artisanal craftsmen' who specialize in antisanal handcrafted redundancies?

I am an artisanal time waster and procrastinator. I am the goddamn Nobel Prize winner of perfected nothing.

can we just agree that the article was poorly written?

it was a bad article

on the bright side you can find some kickstarter projects where people are making fine artisinal products out of machine-sculpted aluminum or stuff using homegrown 3d printers

well my problem w/ these articles is that they always conflate 'this thing in brooklyn is not a bad thing for the economy, u kno'(people will pay more $$ for gourmet jerky, dude has job) with 'this can save the economy' I guess this dicussion should go in its proper thread tho.

these are like a dime a dozen the last few years, but w/e:

http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/from-print-edition-informer/2012/02/15/almost-rich/

omg! These people are just this close to being rich, but damn if they really feel like they're quite living the correct rich person lifestyle.

when you run out of artisinal craftsman opportunities you can become a curator of same

I like the bit where the author says that pre-industrial revolution humans had a profoundly inefficient economy

in the nyt article

lol @ that almost rich article

kinda wish everyone profiled in it was murdered