Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘You Can’t Earn a Billion Dollars’
‘And so you have to create a myth that — since you didn’t earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it’
EXCERPT:
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right? You can't earn a billion dollars.”
GLAZER: “That's right.”
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “You just can't earn that.”
GLAZER: “That's exactly correct.”
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “You can -- you can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws.”
GLAZER: “Yeah.”
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “You can pay people less than what they're worth.”
GLAZER: “Yeah.”
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “But you can't earn that, right?”
GLAZER: “That's right.”
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