"32 hour work week? That's probably the most interesting part of anything in the article. Not sure how that can be implemented but like with anything...you have to start somewhere."

I'm guessing this is shift-workers only. I can't imagine that high-demand workers like doctors, nurses, airline pilots, etc, would be limited to 32 hours per week.

"If they have the work available and choose to work longer then that's called "overtime"."

OK, but even that has an effect on the unit cost structure. I'm a salary guy, so I don't know how it works, but it used to be that overtime was 150% of hourly rate. What does that do for labor costs, particularly with in-demand professionals?

For doctors and nurses, it would seem like it would only drive up the cost of healthcare. And it's not like you can easily recruit more of either. Same with airline pilots.

"But Mamdami is obviously a different kind of Democrat. Shaking up the party. Trying to and actually helping people."

Do you think Mamdani's proposed and/or implemented policies are hurting some while helping others, or is it helping all with a neutral effect?

"It was obviously needed. Showing the way for other democrats."

To do what? Win in the primaries and lose in the general?

"He collects a paycheck from the democratic socialist system he signed up for when he was a kid."

In the US?

If the US is already a Democratic Socialist country...why do you keep whining?

"His desires to prevent Americans from gaining the benefits he's had is laughable."

I do?

My daughter is following in my footsteps. Are you suggesting I am against that? Or that any of her fellow cadets shouldn't be allowed?

Or...are you saying that anyone with the rare talent of being able to draw breath should be entitled to the same benefits as someone who joins the military?

Ready? Go!

"Nor has any poor person done anything beneficial for society. Nor has any government official done anything beneficial for society and are actively destroying the world you used to know."

I would start by saying that the vast majority of us all started off poor. I didn't have a single friend in college who didn't live in an apartment. State school guy.

I would direct you towards the socioeconomic J-Curve, which is basically the delta between what people think they deserve, and what they can achieve through their own merits. Revolutions start when those who think they deserve something don't recieve it. It's generally not the poor. It's the so-called "educated class" that resents that society has not rewarded them in the way they think they deserve to be rewarded.

"If you provide good schools and healthcare to poor people, they can grow up to do amazing things for society."

Like Larry Ellison?

I guess you're right. The US is a Democratic Socialist country.