ironichaos

ironichaos t1_j982yir wrote

It’s an interesting problem because people want to live in nyc for all it offers. However, it looks like around 50% of office workers have no desire to come back and prefer wfh either in nyc or somewhere else.

I’m curious to see if nyc has staying power to be a world class city because it’s great or was it so popular because that’s where business happened. Now that business has shifted to happening all over the place over zoom will we see a declining population here?

Obviously I get the draw to Miami/Austin/Atlanta/etc. but over the next 10-20 years will those cities continue to grow or will people decide to move back/continue to move to nyc over those other places after graduation.

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ironichaos t1_ixdaiks wrote

Yeah just to put some back of the napkin math around this.

The top law firms in nyc charge around 2-3k per hour. So in order to generate a 2b fee they would need to spend roughly 660k hours in billed time. A lawyer typically is required to bill 1800+ hours per year at these firms. That would mean 370ish lawyers dedicated full time to this for an entire year. Im not a lawyer so who knows how many it takes for this sort of negotiation, but I would find it hard to believe that many lawyers worked on this full time.

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ironichaos t1_ivh0xgw wrote

Maybe I should start walking off the train shoulders square instead of turning to the side to appease these people who have no common decency. It also happens in my apartment in the elevator. People just cut in line or get on when I’m trying to get off.

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ironichaos t1_is8fv4k wrote

Use Firefox and their cookie container plugin. I can log into as many aws accounts as I want. Total game changer but I haven’t found a similar one for chrome yet.

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