Mamdani is pandering to entitled voters who splash out $8 for coffee but cant handle canceling a Starz subscription

Zohran Mamdani wants to be a knight in shining armor, coming to save New Yorkers from … their streaming subscriptions. The mayor’s office has announced a new city rule that promises to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up for one.Do New Yorkers seriously need the government to step in and save them from their streaming subscription after a free trial renews? Let’s be adults here.

This new rule, touted by the administration as a pillar of “Mayor Mamdani’s affordability agenda,” is part of the larger phenomenon that propelled him into office: pandering to the entitled. For too many Mamdani supporters, the affordability crisis isn’t about the price of eggs.It’s about their inability to exercise the most basic requirements of fiscal responsibility without the government swooping in to hold their hand through the process. These are the same people who whine about affordability while spending $8 on an artisanal latté.

Who resent their Boomer parents for enjoying retirement while glossing over the fact that older generations are prosperous in their golden years because they spent decades growing savings and exercising austerity. “For years, companies have built their business model around making it harder for working people to hold onto their money,” Mamdani said in a Friday press conference, where he blamed difficult-to-cancel subscriptions for making “working people pay more while corporations profit.”Like disgraced former Senate candidate Graham Platner’s origin story, this is a new-fangled, DSA-centric conception of the “working class” In reality, actual working people check their bank statements and don’t let unwanted subscriptions drain their accounts just because a few extra clicks feel too inconvenient.They don’t need the government to swoop in and help navigate through a few last-ditch discount offers before hitting “confirm cancellation.”A real man of the working class mayor would be more attuned to the...