@Olivier5,
Thanks for posting the whole short thing, me being a long time new yorker fan, off and on subscriber as a non wealthy white person, for a million years. Lots of people of varied colored skin in many places who like reading run into paywalls. I'm sympathetic to the business needs too, so it's a bubbling quandary, given that I also am fond of the internet existing -
this ramble leads me to mention I always read Packer when I see him, years now.
I get him on this one too. Our local grocery store closed recently, so Walmart is the obvious place to go re accessibility, which matters. I like the greeters, eye contact and smile. I liked the worker who told me she liked my shoes (big sale). She was nearly as old as I am, we exchanged comments.
It is crucifyingly horrible that our store closed because they can't compete with Walmart (2 of them, one very large and one small).
They are partly responsible for decimation on our main through street, in a not awful neighborhood, mildly approaching middle class.
I've designed landscapes in famously good neighborhoods and liked some of our firm's clients. For the LA Times building. I've designed for people who help the homeless, and for an aids patient house, and so on. In all that, I've never earned much.
My ex, but also friend, was raised in south LA, so I have some of his knowledge of what people go though there, part of why we still talk.
My point, plenty of trouble, even in places that look ok.
