Re: Monorail. Monorail! Monoraaaail!

On 26 Feb 2006 16:38:02 -0600, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Kevin J. Maroney <kjm@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 26 Feb 2006 11:11:47 -0600, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I myself end up about five minutes' walk from my office when I get off
my train. I'm not sure there's a legal parking space any closer that I
could use. And yes, the area I'm in--Manhattan south of 59th
Street--is so unusual that only four million people a day work there.

Yes, exactly -- a very small percentage of people work in such dense
circumstances.

It's about 1% of Americans total; it's about 2.5% of the American
workforce. That's what I have a hard time thinking of as "very
unusual". It's not average, but it's hardly rare.

I suspect most people would consider 1% "vanishingly rare".

I wouldn't think so--for instance, there are more people in the US who
work in lower Manhattan than there are Jews or Muslims. (There are
more Mormons, though.) I don't think that anyone would describe Jews
in America as "vanishingly rare". Unsurprisingly, very few of the
people who commute daily to lower Manhattan live in Minneapolis, and
thus they're not a big part of your daily life. But they aren't
scarce.

That was, in fact, my point--anything which describes four million
people in the US can't really be considered "very" unusual. Not
typical, perhaps. But hardly freakish, which is how you're treating
it.

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