rant · moment 9 of 19
Money Killing Class and Condos Replacing Co-ops
from Kump Joins Team 10 · #78
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6 minTim expands into how money replaced older class markers rooted in civic virtue, using the shift from exclusive co-op boards to condo buildings in New York as an example of good intentions curdling into moral chaos.
- 23:42Money killed class—at one point, worth was measured by education, how you earned money, and civic virtue, not just wealth.
- 24:21The idea and symbolism matter; removing them and replacing the system with just money throws everything off the rails.
- 24:58Tim traces class decline as a gradual cycle of new money replacing old money across generations, not a single moment.
- 25:19When wealthy New Yorkers left co-ops for condos, it removed exclusionary ethnic and religious gatekeeping by co-op boards—progress in one sense.
- 25:59Condos opened the door to anyone with money: human traffickers, oligarchs, vine stars doing coke and orgies, all living as equals in the building.