Thethingsz
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In short it all comes down to "good billionaire" whom she likes (Soros, etc.), vs bad... AKA whom she dislikes.
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The likely 2028 presidential candidate is arguing that there is no idea anyone can have, or company anyone can start, or value anyone can generate for others, that could possibly be worth a billion dollars.
If true, that raises questions that a fawning Glazer did not ask. In what ways does Ocasio-Cortez believe that Taylor Swift, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfeld, Oprah Winfrey or Beyoncé — billionaires, all — broke the rules to accumulate their wealth? Who did they take advantage of?
Does she think the FBI should investigate Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) or Tom Steyer, the Democratic candidate for California governor? What about Democratic megadonor Alex Soros, a big fan of Ocasio-Cortez’s?
Criminal prosecutions were on Ocasio-Cortez’s mind. Earlier in the interview, she talked about how bankers should have gone to prison after the Great Recession. What crimes they committed, or why Attorney General Eric Holder, under President Barack Obama, missed opportunities to prosecute them, she did not say.
She also did not say why a billion dollars is the cutoff. Every self-made billionaire — and most of them are self-made — was at one point worth $999 million. Was everything they did up to that point legitimate? What made the additional million immoral?
Some of Ocasio-Cortez’s colleagues, such as Reps. Ro Khanna (D-California) and Nancy Pelosi (D-California), are centimillionaires.
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The likely 2028 presidential candidate is arguing that there is no idea anyone can have, or company anyone can start, or value anyone can generate for others, that could possibly be worth a billion dollars.
If true, that raises questions that a fawning Glazer did not ask. In what ways does Ocasio-Cortez believe that Taylor Swift, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfeld, Oprah Winfrey or Beyoncé — billionaires, all — broke the rules to accumulate their wealth? Who did they take advantage of?
Does she think the FBI should investigate Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) or Tom Steyer, the Democratic candidate for California governor? What about Democratic megadonor Alex Soros, a big fan of Ocasio-Cortez’s?
Criminal prosecutions were on Ocasio-Cortez’s mind. Earlier in the interview, she talked about how bankers should have gone to prison after the Great Recession. What crimes they committed, or why Attorney General Eric Holder, under President Barack Obama, missed opportunities to prosecute them, she did not say.
She also did not say why a billion dollars is the cutoff. Every self-made billionaire — and most of them are self-made — was at one point worth $999 million. Was everything they did up to that point legitimate? What made the additional million immoral?
Some of Ocasio-Cortez’s colleagues, such as Reps. Ro Khanna (D-California) and Nancy Pelosi (D-California), are centimillionaires.
