Mastodawn

They pay $34 for burgers. Should their fire department service be free? Opening a new fire department in one of NYC's richest neighborhoods has some of America's pettiest journalists asking silly questions in headlines again.🤡

The article acknowledges the fire department analogy, then blows past it.🤷🏿‍♂️

The solve for "Sometimes when a service like free childcare is available to all, marginalized communities get squeezed out," is "Address that racism."

It's not "Therefore waste incredible amounts of time and money trying to means test something that society should just make available to all.🤡"

Monica Gonzalez-Marquez 1d ago

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myrmepropagandist

@mekkaokereke

Some of NYC's poorest people WORK in the wealthiest neighborhoods. And although there is income segregation in NYC it's never absolute. There are poor people in every single neighborhood.

But also the best way to ensure a public service is high quality is to make it so everyone uses it. Things just "for the poor" tend to slowly become terrible.