Here's a rare good news story -- how Lin-Manuel Miranda and his friends saved the Drama Book Shop on West 40th street from its demise. It's a story of modern day noblesse oblige, the wealthy saving and sponsoring art and artists or, in this case, an artistic platform, from which the rest of the culture gains.
It's both great and depressing for obvious reasons -- book stores, particularly in NYC, have been vanishing thanks to technology, gentrification, etc. So when the wealthy and powerful intervene -- great! But when they don't ...
And that's the point -- we need an economic model where the wealthy don't always have to be saviors. That's why I hope, great as this news is and great as its current benefactors are, co-ops really should be the future for American business.
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