Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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They are for profit.
They are traded on Wall Street.
And what happens is that those companies and this system is that it does not accept anything but growth.
It's not even good enough to be profitable.
It's not even good enough to be profitable.
You have to be more profitable and more profitable and more profitable.
It's not enough to be a profitable business.
You have to keep growing those profits.
And so once they've rounded up every person in this country, who do you think is next?
We weren't really a democracy until 1963, 1965.
That's exactly right.
You know, voting rights and civil rights.
We weren't, we were apartheid before then.
It is, and it's, I find, I don't know, I just find the dynamic of it so wild because in my job, I do, every once in a while, have the opportunity to look these folks in the eye.
when you really look at someone in the eye, you can really see so much, including what they want to hide, about who they like really are on the inside.
And it's just like, you know,
It's people with a lot of power that are very often, I think, like just exacting their inner dramas.
and making it all of our problem?