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walrus01 | on: The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
You think that the size of investment firms that own something like, a good sized chunk of midtown Manhattan class A and B commercial real estate aren't capable of deploying social and tradtional-media influence tools to push an agenda to repopulate their office space? That would be a very inaccurate assessment of how large and motivated they are.
matchbok3 | parent
If you are willing to believe a nonsense conspiracy like that then there is no way we could have a productive conversation.
walrus01 | root | parent
You actually don't think that the world's largest REITs hire lobbyists at the municipal, state and federal levels? That's an extremely naive and uninformed position.