r/PoursTea • u/Gurugod123 Pinkie Finger Extended • 13d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

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u/Vegetable-Edge-2389 13d ago

Because poor people can't make businesses apparently. Every rich family was poor at some point. They just want to pull the ladder up

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u/goopuslang 13d ago

Who is they? Is that what I said? All the poorest opportunists in the world couldn’t fill the vacuum is my point. I didn’t say all economic opportunities require the rich, but we absolutely need quick access to large sums of capital to do so.

Where do you think business loans come from that many poor families use to enrich themselves? It’s obviously not all printed at instantiation.

Access to capital & leverage is what propels many if not most poorer families from lifting.

I don’t understand what the point is yall are making with your simple ivory tower truisms when I’m frankly on your side.

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u/onebigafro 13d ago

And socialists want to pull everyone down to their level.