We are losing

[thought crime]

64. You have some good ideas.

Thank you for sharing. I agree with some of your ideas, especially around rent, although I think rent control or city management of housing in various ways can work. (Disclaimer: we're currently staying half the summer in an apartment my wife owns in Helsinki, that is price controlled because it sits on city land. But Helsinki is another story).

For grocery stores, I partly agree with you. I think stores in underserved neighborhoods could be mostly subsidized, not owned outright, by the city. So Mom and Pop could get a break. But there may be areas with no Mom & Pop's.

Leave Wall Street alone? I'll just have to disagree. They can pay, and they can pay more. Same with the Tech Bros on the West Coast, who are even worse; stop whining. But FU Florida and Texas? Yes I agree. Apologies to Willie Nelson, although I suspect he spends more time in Maui than in Texas. I would.

Your point about commuter trains is good, which I can say based on my own experience of commuting to Seattle 90 minutes each way for over 20 years. "Talk to the banks and other big companies in New York City about 3 or 4 days in the office." ? Really? I'd rather do it Mamdani style.
But is it possible that working class people have their own transportation issues that are every bit as severe as commuting office workers? Mamdani has some ideas about that. Help with bus tickets and improve the metro/subways. One thing that works incredibly well in Helsinki is having really good sidewalks with adjacent bicycle/scooter lanes. They are massively used, along with buses, trams, metro and trains.

Pull 100,000 workers out of the city into the suburbs? Well, another one of my prejudices is that Suburbs Suck! But go ahead. I nominate IT workers, who should be punished for having jobs that are actually, occasionally interesting. And there is practically no reason for most IT workers to be on the office. Let them stay in their houses out in the 'burbs.