This is Planet Money from NPR.
Every Tuesday morning,
this very easy to overlook but incredibly important thing happens on the street where I live in Brooklyn.
Three employees of the City of New York roll up in a giant truck and take away all the garbage for the people in my apartment building.
Those guys in their stained Deglo green t-shirts,
they are just one part of this vast army of workers who make a city like New York even possible to live in.
Now or so after these sanitation guys roll through,
my daughter packs up her bag and heads out to her public middle school.
Bye sweetie.
Bye.
where she will be educated by yet more city employees.
Those sirens you are hearing,
those are because just down the street from where my daughter catches her bus each morning,
there is a fire station.
And by, you guessed it, city employees.
Altogether, more than 300,000 people work for the city of New York.
300,000 people who make it possible for the city to function.
And this marvel of social coordination, like...
So many things in our world is made possible by money.
Yeah, my family pays city income tax and property tax and sales tax.