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Tech investor David Friedberg says it's wrong to assume Zohran Mamdani's city-run grocery stores will 'radically fail' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Venture capitalist David Friedberg says he thinks the initial popularity of New York's city-run grocery stores will "light a fire for socialism."

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[–] uen3@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

He frames them not failing as a bad thing, by the way. Otherwise he'd get his Republican card confiscated and Business Insider wouldn't platform him. "The dirty lazy poors will get too used to all that free stuff and get uppity and demand more, which will eventually cut into the ability of the investor class- you and me, the only worthy people who matter- to maximize our earnings."