Ben Shapiro
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But here is her explanation.
The amount of brain power in that room could toast a piece of bread lightly.
Absolute...
Oatmeal for brains over there.
You cannot earn a billion.
Absolutely.
You can earn a billion dollars.
In fact, the way that you earn a billion dollars in the private sector is you provide goods and services to millions of people that they want to pay for.
That is how you earn a billion dollars.
You innovate a new product.
Lots of people want it and then they pay you for it.
That is how you make money.
But again, this sort of stupidity has become de rigueur for the left.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez then pushed this further.
She said, the single largest form of theft in America is wage theft.
$50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.
Now, she's not talking here about the wage theft of the government coming in and literally confiscating a giant chunk of your paycheck every month.
She thinks it is wage theft.
for companies to not pay wages that she thinks they should pay.
She says, if a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely, they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual.