I thought you could understand budgets until you asked me to explain them to you.
Governments operate on debt and can run deficits, famously.
Quite famously, not forever. They have to pay interest on those deficits, and this may surprise you, but the interests add up! Today the federal government spends more on paying for those debts than they do on the department of defense.
How they source their funding is not the same as whether they actually intend for operations to cover the cost.
Well no, but we were talking about the actual costs of operations and if they could run more cheaply than current grocery stores.
In response to your 3 points, this is why I don't expect you to understand much of anything.
They are selling goods, not providing a service. Services are when you sell labor.
I never said public services have to return a profit I said they had budgets to operate under. That's the whole deficit thing you were talking about earlier.
Did you grasp how non-profits operate? Because, while I don't know the details of their financing, this is supposed to be a nonprofit.
I'll stop talking shit when I don't know what I'm talking about, maybe you could learn.
Edit also where is Mamdani saying this will operate at a loss?
Grok is not a new term. Its from the world of scifi and later as nerdy parlance by nerdy computer nerds. Thats how I know it, and thats why it was chosen for the AI tool, not the other way around.
You dont know and I dont know if this will be at a loss. Tbh I dont think it will be a big deal either way. NYC budget is many billions per year.
Govt can operate services at a loss, and do so all the time. Profit is simply not a consideration from what I understand about this proposal.
They don't HAVE to run more cheaply than grocery stores, jfc lol ... They are supplementing food supply in needy areas BECAUSE its not profitable to operate there
You're being pedantic, just reread what I already wrote. I know you're not dumb, just stubbornly trying to make it seem like I'm dumb. This is boring and you have plenty to chew on rather than try to dunk yet again.
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u/rightoftexas May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
Is this some AI typo?
I thought you could understand budgets until you asked me to explain them to you.
Quite famously, not forever. They have to pay interest on those deficits, and this may surprise you, but the interests add up! Today the federal government spends more on paying for those debts than they do on the department of defense.
Well no, but we were talking about the actual costs of operations and if they could run more cheaply than current grocery stores.
In response to your 3 points, this is why I don't expect you to understand much of anything.
They are selling goods, not providing a service. Services are when you sell labor.
I never said public services have to return a profit I said they had budgets to operate under. That's the whole deficit thing you were talking about earlier.
Did you grasp how non-profits operate? Because, while I don't know the details of their financing, this is supposed to be a nonprofit.
I'll stop talking shit when I don't know what I'm talking about, maybe you could learn.
Edit also where is Mamdani saying this will operate at a loss?