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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
You’re the one who wanted to dumb the conversation down to entertainment value, so I’m not sure why you’re now saying the world is more complicated. I get that you wanted to go there to land your weird attempt at being condescending, but it was never in question.
The city budget is $7B. Great. But outside of people who are genuinely terrible with their money, nobody makes spending decisions based on their total budget. That’s like saying you bought a new computer because “you could afford to” and then it turns out you asked your dad for money, saved a bit because you decided not to go to the dentist this year, and put the rest on credit.
But BigThief is right, you seem to be missing the point entirely, because the fact that “people want it” and “there’s wiggle room in the city budget” has really nothing to do with what was being discussed and, at best, proves the point you’re trying to dispute.
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Too much wrong with this post to even bother rebutting.
I will respond to the bolded though, because it is pertinent to the conversation. Maybe
you don't make spending decisions based on a total budget, but that is exactly how a city, or any similar large organization,
does make spending decisions.
There is a finite budget to deal with, and multiple goals to achieve, and resources are allocated to achieve or address as many goals as possible. It's a pretty straight-forward, and very standard, process. And no, it isn't simply a case of 'this has more value than that', because the city has multiple goals that they are addressing at the same time, one of them (in this case) being the revitalization of East Village.