[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Chamath Palihapitiya [@chamath](/creator/twitter/chamath) on x 1.9M followers Created: 2025-06-30 18:39:13 UTC This guy is definitely talented. A rich kid LARP’ing as a poor mans defender. But anyone who has grown up poor (I grew up on welfare) or people who are poor hate people like this. None of us wanted to stay poor. We wanted to be rich and never look back. The hard work, resilience and ingenuity to do so should be celebrated. Only a masochist or an idiot would want to stay poor. So, as it turns out, the only people that fall for this ragebait are guilty, rich people who inherited wealth or luckboxed their way to wealth and feel they don’t deserve it. You’d think there aren’t many of them, and you’d be right, but there are a few cities that tend to concentrate these gullible lemmings and NYC is one. If he wins, he will most likely be a symbolic mayor who accomplishes nothing (like most mayors in most cities) OR he will get a mandate to try his version of governance. That version has already been tried many times - London, Vienna, Chicago, Havana. That version will most likely ruin NYC and degrade one of the world’s greatest cities as those policies have already done in the cities that have tried before it. No matter what happens, all of this will be meticulously documented as a report card on both the root causes and outcomes of limousine liberalism. In the end, you can have equality of outcome or you can have the freedom to achieve your own God given ability but you can’t have both as the residents of NYC may soon find out. XXXXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [mamdani](/topic/mamdani) [Post Link](https://x.com/chamath/status/1939755621693456871)
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Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath on x 1.9M followers
Created: 2025-06-30 18:39:13 UTC
This guy is definitely talented.
A rich kid LARP’ing as a poor mans defender. But anyone who has grown up poor (I grew up on welfare) or people who are poor hate people like this.
None of us wanted to stay poor. We wanted to be rich and never look back. The hard work, resilience and ingenuity to do so should be celebrated. Only a masochist or an idiot would want to stay poor.
So, as it turns out, the only people that fall for this ragebait are guilty, rich people who inherited wealth or luckboxed their way to wealth and feel they don’t deserve it. You’d think there aren’t many of them, and you’d be right, but there are a few cities that tend to concentrate these gullible lemmings and NYC is one.
If he wins, he will most likely be a symbolic mayor who accomplishes nothing (like most mayors in most cities) OR he will get a mandate to try his version of governance. That version has already been tried many times - London, Vienna, Chicago, Havana.
That version will most likely ruin NYC and degrade one of the world’s greatest cities as those policies have already done in the cities that have tried before it.
No matter what happens, all of this will be meticulously documented as a report card on both the root causes and outcomes of limousine liberalism.
In the end, you can have equality of outcome or you can have the freedom to achieve your own God given ability but you can’t have both as the residents of NYC may soon find out.
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