Agreed. Really hoping that a conservative candidate with a pulse can run in a city with a campaign that targets younger voters. I think that a socially aware fiscally conservative YIMBY would have a real chance in a lot of cities.

The fact that Zohran won should be a wake up call to both parties, but I won’t hold my breath.

I’m just glad that it seems like people actually care, even if I think it will end up poorly. An overall win.

> socially aware fiscally conservative YIMBY

.. that's not a conservative, though. Especially not in the culture war era.

Seems a bit reductive, I know people that match the description :)

They shouldn’t exist

I lived in a world without billionaires - Eastern Europe pre-1990.

It wasn't a world without powerful people though: party nomenklatura and their friends ruled us with an iron fist. Not billionaires in numbers but in lifestyle, power and ruthlessness.

Together with actual billionaires, we also lost all the products and services their work created in process of making them billionaires, so we were all cold and hungry.

I learned then to cherish societies where one could become billionaires: it meant there was enough economic freedom so that the tiny insignificant me could carve a honest, dignified living for me and my own without begging politician mercy for handouts.

We should have more billionaires.

Great response! Its very trendy to say things like "capitalism is gross" or "billionaires shouldn't exist" but the truth is, capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than anything else in the history of the world. Moreover, billionaires (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc) didn't "steal" anything from you to get there. No one forced you to buy an iPhone.

Too much power for one person

Why? What power? Being rich (billionaire rich) is fine as long as you didn't steal it from someone. Who are we to say how much money someone can have?