AOC on Why Capitalists Don’t Deserve Wealth: ‘You Didn’t Make Those Widgets!’

EXCERPT:

OCASIO-CORTEZ: "Well, you didn't make those widgets, did you? Because you employed thousands of people and paid them less than a living wage to make those widgets for you.

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You didn't make those widgets. You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern-day slave wages, and in some cases real slave, real modern-day slavery, depending on where you are in terms of food production. You made that money off of the backs of undocumented people, you made that money off of the backs of black and brown people being paid off a living wage — under a living wage. You made that money off of the backs of single mothers, and all of these people who are literally dying because they can't afford to live. And so, no one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.”