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NYC is the capitol of white collar sweat.

Fair enough. I mean, if you have to gerrymander the exact, specific terms that you're talking about, then yes. I have to agree. Stockbrokers spend more time outside of climate-controlled spaces in NYC, compared to other major cities.

When it comes right down to it, it was simply idiotic to build cities in the hot-as-fuck zones of the planet, to begin with. Even suburbs have heat-bubbles clinging to them, so that we really can't be outside all that much, without actually risking heatstroke, like I was saying.

As a civilization, it would have made a whole hell of a lot more sense to keep building even more densely in the Northeast. There's shitloads of land in upstate New York and New Jersey that would have supported more cities, let alone the whole region.

I guess it comes down to the pure, unbridled evil of colonial-era white people. Moving out West and down South, into areas that are literally deadly for three months out of the year was just fine, as long as it was the black and/or brown people being worked to death in the heat.

And, ya know, poor folks in general. Same as ever.