The bus (and the subway) in NYC are also already heavily subsidized. There is also already heavily subsidized childcare in NYC (3k, preK).
The article in general takes the approach of listing a small handful of (usually very small) polities that have one of Mamdani's proposed policies, and then claim that the full suite is therefore "normal" across Europe.
> We're going to stabilize around 10 billion by 2080 according to projections and then decline, hopefully reaching some kind of Star Trek utopia at some point.
10 billion is gonna be the high end by the looks of things, and that decline is going to be hardly conducive to utopia. The math of dependency ratios is inescapably painful.
> I think it's more likely, drawing from biology, that we end up at a stable global population level without having to worry about moving backwards along the metrics of education, income or contraceptive access.
There's absolutely no inherent equilibrating force that will stabilize global fertility rates at replacement. Many countries have blown by replacement (the USA included) and continue on a downward trend year over year.
I found this hard to believe, but confirmation bias is a hell of a drug, so I ran my own quick blinded experiment: 3 cups of hot water, one of which had a small pinch of saffron swirled around in it, one with a 1/4 tsp of turmeric, one plain.
That it was trivial to tell which was which is an understatement. There's a floral sweetness to saffron that is absolutely unmistakable to me.
“Compiles” to SQL, but with a different structural paradigm.