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Billionaires are everywhere. Just this week, The Guardian reported that Gen Z's hottest job is nannying for billionaires. President Trump pardoned a British billionaire who was convicted of fraud so he can visit his grandbabies in America. A billionaire investor threatened on CNBC to leave New York because housing is too expensive.
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Then he said, Mamdani's going to turn New York into Mumbai. These stories are annoying. We are annoyed with billionaires, but we can't escape them. Or can we? Coming up on Today Explained, the movement to abolish billionaires.
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Chapter 2: How is the public perception of billionaires changing?
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Evan Osnos of The New Yorker, good day to you. Recently, as a result of, I don't know, I'm just going to pick a name out of a hat, Zoran Mamdani, we have all been starting to hear about a sort of anti-billionaire sentiment that goes something like this, to keep it short. Abolish billionaires. There shouldn't be billionaires.
Talk to me about where this abolish billionaires push comes from and where it begins.
Well, as a general idea, this has been around since the Russian Revolution in 1917. But in recent years, it's become much more explicit. It was really around 2019 that we began to hear that idea. This was in the latter moments of the first Trump administration. And Bernie Sanders was running for president.
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