Simple rules: you just have to add a few possible outcomes of the transit strike that haven’t been on the news.
1- None of the children in NYC get Christmas presents because Santa’s sleigh is turned back for not having at least four passengers.
2- Pissed off yuppies bitching to each other in coffee shops on their 43 block walks begin a class war known to history as The Starbucks Revolution, ultimately ending with the transit workers being executed and NYC becoming its own country with a capital at the Ikea building.