Work only with subcontractors who will “work with NYCEDC (New York City Economic Development Corporation) to establish appropriate [minority and women-owned business] participation goals and make good faith efforts to achieve them.” Which sounds a lot like Friedrich Hayek's theory of knowledge in the marketplace, which explains why central planning always fails, and why socialism itself always fails. The great Austrian economist of free market economics wrote about it in his famous essay, "The Use of Knowledge in Society," arguing that central planning would always fail because central planning deals with statistics and generalities, not particular circumstances. Mamdani's method of operation to control the economy is to lay traps to foolish businesses enticed into his government grocery schemes. Lagniappe: This video, by Charles Curran, who did many of the spectacular Spencer Pratt ads, is brilliant, too:I used AI to explain Mamdani’s grocery store, with fruit.