• “I’ve lived in the city nearly all my life. I never had to repeat my highly complex Starbucks order — a “tall” coffee — three times to get a response from the bummed-out barista, the way I do now,” New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo writes in a column posted Sunday.
• Cuozzo spreads the blame, pointing in part to the decriminalization of marijuana, which he argues had made smoking it pervasive.
• “A license to get high has turned service employees into zombies,” Cuozzo also writes.
• Cuozzo collects several anecdotes from resident and concludes: “Our ‘progressive’ pols are throwing our city into the trash — and it’s no accident.”
• He also writes, perhaps to exaggeratedly to show his outrage : “It’s time to lower the minimum wage.”

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