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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.

We shouldn't. And he thinks that too. Cool.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's inspiring to see Americans are still fighting the good fight.

I agree with him. there's no morally good reason to be hoarding that much money

god he's so hot

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.

Hoarding = mental illness = billionaires

Lmao that's because we shouldn't have billionaires

This needs to become the mainstream opinion. Billionaires and ultra wealthy shouldn't exist. There is no trickling down or any of that stolen wealth coming back into the hands of average people.

Even the billionaires would be better off without billinaires. It their relative ranking was the same they would still have more money than they could spend but it would now come with clean air, water, land, better infrastructure, a healthier world, happier people to interact with.

Here in the UK 78% of people support a 2% wealth tax on net assets worth more than £10 million yet our spineless neoliberal government is more focused on cutting disability benefits and bombing starving children.

They could just stop impeding progress and let the working class have things like healthcare and a living wage. Guess that's too much to ask and they would prefer guillotines?

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.

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...

Mera bhai <3

He’s absolutely right. Billionaires should not exist.

It's not that we shouldn't have billionaires. Its that we have billionaires when we have people living on the streets because the rent is so ridiculous. Its that we have people dying on the streets because they cannot afford health insurance. The gravy on the shit-fest is that billionaires are actively bribing the politicians to prevent those policies from being implemented. That is the textbook recipe for guillotines.

Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.

You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.

That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”

Order to eliminate all billionaires confirmed! To the Priuses, we ride!

*lift sword out window

*slowly pull away from curb with loud prius humming noise

/s I dont advicate violence and I agree billionaire level accrual of wealth shouldnt happen. When it does it should be taxed like FDR did it. We've never done so well as a country than when we had real progressive taxation. When Maga people talk about making america great agin, thats the era they are thinking about, when a single worker could support a whole family and buy a house and raise kids with a normal job, and a normal job was respected and dignified.

Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has backed President Donald Trump in the past, on Thursday pledged to use his money to bankroll a challenger to Mamdani in the general election.

Case in point.

Centrists already hated him, and now he said their gods shouldn't exist.

He's right. Let's see if people could live off 999 million in assets.

Nobody asked me, but I agree with him.

This guy sounds pretty based!

I like this guy.