Zohran Mamdani doesn't think there should be billionaires but would work with them as NYC mayor and denies being a communist

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• The New York City mayoral candidate, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, was asked if billionaires have a right to exist. “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality,” he replied, but added that he would work with them to made the city fairer.

Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayoral candidate who describes himself as a democratic socialist, has a dim view of the ultrarich but is still willing to work with them.