The city’s war on small business slams ‘cat cafes’

In short: NYC’s wacky regulations have shut down a cat cafe, for reasons that seem at best arbitrary. This not only harms the humans who own the business, it harms the humans who are employed there and the humans who would like to frequent it… and it harms the cats who might have been “employed” at the cafe. These cats would be provided not only with a clean, safe environment that is more enriching than a simple metal cage in a shelter, they would also be made available to the human clientele for adoption.

This is just one of the reasons why I dislike major urban population zones like this. It compresses people… and power. Inhabitants surrender power to other people in order to take care of things and smooth over the social order; and once people (like city governments) start accumulating power, they don’t know when to stop. Or even *to* stop. So here you have Bill De Blasio’s jackbooted thugs clipboarded bureaucrats potentially economically ruining some people for reasons that make no reasonable sense.