“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, uh, depending on where you are in terms of food production,” Ocasio-Cortez claimed. “You made that money off the backs of undocumented people. You made that money off the backs of black and brown people being paid under a living wage.”
“You made that money off the backs of single mothers and all these people who are literally dying because they can’t afford to live and so no one ever makes a billion dollars,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “You take a billion dollars and all of that to say, is that it’s, and I’m not here to villainize and to say that billionaires are inherently morally corrupt – but they are, I mean, I think there is a case, but um, but, it’s not to say that, it’s to say that this system that we live in, life in capitalism, always ends in billionaires. If you don’t do it, someone else will. It’s who decides to make that choice is just kind of up to, you know, circumstance.”
Oh, solid ending there, Alex. LOL. Nothing like wandering down a rabbit hole and finding there is no exit.
She thinks there is only labor, that there is no such thing as entrepreneurial risk. Nobody signs loan papers, nobody could go broke if the business fails. “Capitalism” means there is capital, and it is risked. Her “slaves” have no capital and take no risk. They show up, work a day, and go home. If the business fails, they just go find another job. They won’t lose anything except a days pay, if that.
Also note, “living wage”, which presumably she gets to define, although she hasn’t. She makes a case as if it is certain, but gives no evidence and uses unknown assumed numbers to make her case. And she pretends no white people have labor jobs. Shouldn’t they also get the benefit of her unknown living wage?
This lady is worse than Obama. She hasn’t learned anything since about age 12.