Originally Posted by
Mark Rippetoe
I tend to have a low opinion of people who demonstrate a low opinion of me. Big City People often demonstrate a smugness about their own intelligence, experience, tastes, and capabilities that ends up being incongruent with reality. This is common in NYC, LA, Seattle especially, and increasingly Austin. I haven't been in Portland or SF enough to know. I certainly don't know about Toronto, because I've only been there 4 times. These people have destroyed NYC with this behavior translated into votes. The wrong people were placed in charge because they fed the smugness, and now that it's time for adults to make decisions, none are either available or interested. So let them enjoy their creation. Not one dime of federal tax money should be used to rebuild any of these places.
"The poor" got thrown in with The Smug. Why? Poor people are poor for many reasons, and my opinion of them depends on the reason, as it should.