

“Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end.
If you live in New York State — let alone New York City — you pay some of the highest taxes in America. You pay them for things you love (like Central Park!) and things you hate (like racist, brutal cops) and things you don’t have feelings about but kind of need and should just assume are wasteful in some way (the MTA). You also pay rising rent costs, which are insane. But as a taxpayer, you ultimately pay not just for this city’s upkeep, but for this city’s growth. And as your salary does not grow, New York City continues to grow into a city none of us can afford. You are paying for the New…