what the F*CK is happening inside all those massive skyscrapers in Mahnattan?

Making the Empire run.

Just like Adolph Eichman did.

Most high rise buildings ( 25+) in Midtown have a core that makes up 10-20% of the building footprint/floor plan. Core is comprised of mechanical shafts, stair towers, elevator shafts, plumbing shafts etc. Vertical stacking is efficient for obvious reasons, but NYC has one of the most comprehensive vertical zoning regulations on the world. Even most of the major historical landmark districts have buildings the "step back" as they go up. Today, the regulations are pretty rigorous for new construction so you don't have that valley of darkness/massing effect. I'm working on a fairly tall building in the garment district. Takes forever to get things designed and approved.

Trying to figure out the question to the answer 42.

Watch the old classic movie "The Apartment" if you want to see what is going on in those buildings. Features an attractive young shirley mclaine(sp?)

Caman4 wrote:

I mean you walk around the streets below and look up and just think, my god, there are a billion rooms/offices/etc - Whatever the f*ck is in those buildings. Can someone explain?

Soundtrack for this thread:

Pump'n Trump wrote:

People are doing a lot of cocaine and butt stuff

Why hasn't this ended the thread yet?

HardLoper wrote:

A big bell sounds at 9:30 AM and then they all run around between computer monitors making various trades to maximize their bonuses in 9 out of 10 years. Every 10th year or so they cause Western Civilization to nearly collapse.

I'm literally laughing out loud.

Pump'n Trump wrote:

Caman4 wrote:

I mean you walk around the streets below and look up and just think, my god, there are a billion rooms/offices/etc - Whatever the f*ck is in those buildings. Can someone explain?

People are doing a lot of cocaine and butt stuff

Legendary first reply. well done1

94503645 wrote:

HardLoper wrote:

A big bell sounds at 9:30 AM and then they all run around between computer monitors making various trades to maximize their bonuses in 9 out of 10 years. Every 10th year or so they cause Western Civilization to nearly collapse.

I'm literally laughing out loud.

Because you think he was joking? This is a real problem. I had high hopes the last recession could get some momentum into changes, but the public got bored and moved on and the pressure was removed from policymakers, so they were able to avoid a fight against lots of entrenched money.

Godwin wrote:

Pump'n Trump wrote:

People are doing a lot of cocaine and butt stuff

Legendary first reply. well done1

😉

I had the misfortune of spending a bit of time with a Wall Street banker a couple months ago. This is something he said to a chick while drunk at 4 a.m.:

"Hey, what's your name? Nicole, I make more in five minutes than your parents make in a week."

Those are the kind of people working in Manhattan.

Every single one of those people are doing the same thing:

Trolling LetsRun

sdfsdfsdfsdf wrote:

94503645 wrote:

I'm literally laughing out loud.

Because you think he was joking? This is a real problem. I had high hopes the last recession could get some momentum into changes, but the public got bored and moved on and the pressure was removed from policymakers, so they were able to avoid a fight against lots of entrenched money.

Not true. The regulators did a great job at insulating us from another mortgage related credit crash. The negative consequences of this are being felt today...

On a serious note, the cocaine and butt stuff post is the correct answer.

Caman4 wrote:

I mean you walk around the streets below and look up and just think, my god, there are a billion rooms/offices/etc - Whatever the f*ck is in those buildings. Can someone explain?

Capitalism

A deed without a name.

Greed, mendacity, corruption, fornication.

shakespeare wrote:

A deed without a name.

Sodomy?

sdfsdfsdfsdf wrote:

94503645 wrote:

I'm literally laughing out loud.

Because you think he was joking? This is a real problem. I had high hopes the last recession could get some momentum into changes, but the public got bored and moved on and the pressure was removed from policymakers, so they were able to avoid a fight against lots of entrenched money.

The biggest buildings are primarily financial "institutions" who's primary purpose is to figure out ways to separate other people from their money so they can take it. It is done with legal loopholes and illegal products that are so convoluted that the understaffed regulators can't see what they are doing.

Way too many people are complacent about how this happens. When the carnage has been done, the "institutions" hire lobbyists to make sure that people like Elizabeth Warren are painted to be a bitter biotch and convince Congress / the Prez to appoint Goldman Sachs executives to the oversight roles because they "understand" finance. Poorly educated Americans believe it and continue to have their 401k money raped away from them. The same lobbyists are trying to gut Social Security. Then poorly educated Americans want to elect Donald Trump for president because they think a loudmouth rich guy somehow represents the masses and will look out for their best interests. The idea of a safe retirement in the US is being stolen by these people daily in NYC high rises.

Call it an angry rant, but more people need to think about what goes on, why there is so much money in such a few hands, and how it affects them directly.

Interesting that you note Elizabeth Warren... she's selling out too. Wasn't hard to see that coming.

If you believe that the political left is not involved in the organized looting of middle and lower class America, you're delusional. They Dems literally shut down regulatory attempts by the 'anti-regulation' Republicans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxMInSfanqg