Bernie Sanders
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You're raising a lot of good issues.
Look, capitalists and very wealthy people forever, what do they want?
They want to make more and more money.
They often break unions, try to pay their workers as little as possible.
Nothing new about that.
But I think you're touching on something that we have a new breed here of people.
A, they are unbelievably wealthy, and I hope everybody knows what is not talked about too much in the corporate media, and that is today we have more income and wealth inequality than we've ever had in the history of this country.
Remember when we were in school, we studied the Gilded Age, Rockefellers, and all those guys?
Nothing compared to what we have right now.
We don't talk about it because they own the media and they own the politicians, but 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.
That's disgraceful.
Number two, the point that you're making is these guys now think literally that because they are smart and they work hard and they develop these big tech companies, that they are God's gift to the human race, that they have a divine right to rule.
And who the hell are you to tell them that maybe there should be some guidelines to protect children
from the dangers of chatbots on AI.
Who are you?
Who do you think you are?
You want to tax me?
Really?
You want to steal my money?
I only have $400 billion, and you want to tax me?