The super-wealthy are a cancer on society, and just like cancer, they suck up all of the resources while killing the patient.
Once you go beyond $100,000,000, there is no measurable difference in lifestyle. However, power accumulates. That amount of power shouldn’t be in the hands of so few.
He is right.
Imagine a “billionaire” in the wild: An animal sitting on a vast horde of food that it could never eat while others starved around it … yea, it would not last long.
Imagine a “billionaire” in a living body. A corporate money making entity would basically be a cancer that had to be removed to save the life of the patient.
The wealth of the rich is still growing and it will continue to grow automatically until the middle class ceases to exist. If we do not take the assets back, it will become impossible for normal working people to ever buy a house, or have any economic power over their own lives at all - nevermind the political control or the media manipulation.
Extreme wealth concentration is THE biggest issue facing society. Mamdani is absolutely right.
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
-Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, 1792
Or, put in modern terms: There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.
Hoarding = mental illness = billionaires
I agree there is no reason why an individual should have that much economic power. There is no justification for that amount of wealth in so few hands.
We shouldn’t. And he thinks that too. Cool.
god he’s so hot
It’s inspiring to see Americans are still fighting the good fight.
I don’t think we should have the situations and lack of regulation that leads to billionaires, especially as it will likely continue to drain/erode the quality-of-life for everyone else to eventually lead to trillionaires…
I agree with him. there’s no morally good reason to be hoarding that much money
Good, I agree.
He has painted a target on his own back though and he should be careful, lest he gets JFK’d or RFK’d.
Had anyone ever said yet… Lin Manuel Mayoranda
I hope he goes far and makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Brave man in a moment that needs brave people.
I like this guy.
