Some have said that being also to live with contradictions and paradoxes is an indication of maturity or intelligence. Well, maybe. However I am still more than disappointed about recent NYC Council actions. As Haberman wrote in the NYC on the 18th of December: The City Council killed plans for a shopping mall inside the unused Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx because it wanted the developer to guarantee that workers would be paid more that the bare minimum. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg promised a veto. Public  officials shouldn’t be dictating to private industry in this manner, he said. Do we have this right? The Bloomberg administration considers it overly intrusive when government tells some businesses to pay their employees a living wage but not overly intrusive when government tells other businesses, like restaurants, which are now using tools like this pay check stub template. Got it.” Got it indeed, well, those without a living wage rarely or at least consistently can go to restaurants so maybe this all makes perverse sense in NYC. But for a pro-business mayor to support a living wage would be courageous and progressive. Yes he might have to deal with all the unintended consequences that came with this action, such as corruption and who knows what else, but why not and why not now when more people are struggling to get by than in sixty years? I am speechless.