https://nypost.com/2020/03/07/youtube-socialist-carlos-maza-slams-the-wealthy-but-lives-in-luxury/
YouTube socialist Carlos Maza slams the wealthy but lived in luxury
By Jon Levine
March 7, 2020 | 6:46pm | Updated
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Carlos Maza doesn’t like rich people.
The social media socialist with more than 150,000 followers on Twitter and YouTube combined regularly uses his platforms to rail against the wealthy and powerful and urges fans to be skeptical of their opinions.
“Just found out James Carville — who spends his time lecturing Democrats for being ‘too far left’ — lives in an absolutely obscene four-story mansion,” Maza said in one such example from February — blasting the longtime Democratic strategist and posting a photo of Carville’s old home to his Twitter account.
“Dear god can we STOP taking political advice from the ultra-wealthy,” he bemoaned. “You really have to respect this guy’s grift. Constantly dressing in normal clothes on TV to feign relatability [sic] while living like this. Masterful con artist”
“We should treat gay people the SAME WAY we treat straight people: Eating them when they get too rich,” he said in another post.
Like any good online socialist, Maza raises money for his internet presence through a Patreon account, where “comrades” — a word Carlos uses to describe his supporters — can fund him in increments of $2, $5 and $10 a month.
But if Maza wants to start eating the rich — he may have to have to begin with his own family.
Carlos Maza
✔@gaywonk
· Feb 12, 2020
Just found out James Carville -- who spends his time lecturing Democrats for being "too far left" -- lives in an absolutely obscene four story mansion and dear god can we STOP taking political advice from the ultra-wealthy.
Carlos Maza
✔@gaywonk
You really have to respect this guys grift.
Constantly dressing in normal clothes on TV to feign relatability while living like this. Masterful con artist.
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Through his clan, the millennial firebrand is connected to multiple Florida mega-mansions, a $7.1 million pad on the Upper West Side purchased under an LLC — and a yacht by luxury boat-maker Donzi.
Maza’s mother Vivian Maza was one of the first employees at Ultimate Software, a Florida-based behemoth which now employs more than 5,000 people. Starting in 1990 as an office manager, she ultimately rose to become the group’s chief people officer in 2004.
In addition to her day job, Vivian Maza also developed a very close personal relationship with company founder Scott Scherr — so close that an independent assessment of the company in 2016 cited the relationship as a “corporate governance concern.”
The report said they believed the pair to be “more than just co-workers” and have a “familial relationship.” The two later became engaged, and the couple has lived together for years, with Scherr being a de facto stepfather to Carlos.
Public records show Vivian, Scott, Carlos and sister Isabel all registered to vote at a five-bedroom, eight-bathroom waterfront palace in Boca Raton, Florida. The property sold in 2018 for $10.8 million according to realty website Zillow. Scherr also unloaded a four-bed, four-bath home in 2015 mansion in Weston, Florida, for $1,850,000 in 2015.
Vivian currently resides full-time in a $4.4 million two-bed, three-bath luxury condo in Fort Lauderdale, which she lists as her primary residence according to a 2020 report filed by LCH 23, LLC — which she controls.
The same LLC purchased a $7,125,000 condo on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in November 2017.
While serving as CEO of Ultimate Software, Scherr was one of the most handsomely compensated CEOs in the country. In 2015 he took home $38.3 million, CBS News reported. In 2008, Scherr’s total stock and options in Ultimate was valued at $17.8 million with shares at the time selling for about $35. In 2019, the company sold for $11 billionwith stocks going for $331.50, almost certainly making Scherr and family nine-figure millionaires — if not billionaires.
It’s not clear how much Vivian and Scherr actively support Maza’s lifestyle, but evidence suggest the family has been happy to pitch in to help spread his socialist message. Both Scherr and Vivian Maza are listed as a “comrades” at the end of Carlos’ most recent YouTube video. And the younger Maza himself admitted in an interview with Mel Magazine that his family was there to financially back him if he needed it.
Viv and Scott have also pitched in on the rent for Carlos’ chic East Village pad just across from Tompkins Square Park, friends tell The Post. Rents for one-bedrooms like Carlos’ cost upward from $3,000 a month.
“I think a lot of these people are unhappy. I’m sure this guy is just craving some attention,” James Carville told The Post. “I don’t have a billion dollars, but whatever I have my daddy didn’t give me. I think I inherited, like, $11,000.”
Maza did not respond to multiple inquiries from The Post, but in a statement posted to Twitter in advance of publication the fauxcialist fessed up to the silver spoons.
“My mom and her fiance are very wealthy thanks to a software company they started together when I was a kid. As a result I’ve gotten to live a life of tremendous privilege,” he said. Maza acknowledged he had always had a “safety net” should his career as a YouTube star go south, but insisted that “nobody is bankrolling” his effort and that his mother only donates $10 a month.
