Saikat Chakrabarti
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And I believe it's a threat to our entire way of being.
If we can't get to a country where 40 honest hours of work a week is able to afford you a life, then our country is doomed.
So that's frankly why I quit the tech industry.
I mean, I worked.
with some of the people that are now in this oligarch class, running companies like OpenAI.
I saw their vision of the future and it's not the vision of the future that I want anything to be a part of.
And so I quit and I joined the Bernie campaign in 2016.
And I've spent the past 10 years trying to fix this fundamentally broken economy and to put taxes on people like myself, because I think we need to have way higher taxes on the billionaires and the richest in our society.
Yeah, please go to my website.
It's schoikot.us, S-A-I-K-A-T.us.
We have a massive volunteer grassroots army here that's running the campaign.
We've got over 2000 people volunteering.
We're knocking doors all over the city.
If you don't live in the district, you can always phone bank.
But I just want to say, like, I know that times seem really dark right now and everything is kind of in a deer, but
There is this huge movement happening.
I've been working in this for 10 years.
I've worked on a ton of insurgent campaigns from Bernie to AOC to a bunch of the squad campaigns back in 2018.
I have never seen an appetite for change like what I'm seeing today.
I believe we can have a movement that completes