Cenk Uygur
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Capitalism isn't supposed to be let's crush the average guy and make sure the corporate CEOs get everything.
I'm a corporate CEO, but it's not right and it's not balanced and it's not American.
The American way is to make sure that we build a super strong middle class that are great, productive citizens, voters, and by the way, consumers, right?
And so if we lose track of that, then we're all going to be doomed.
So, like, Kevin's so worried that somebody's going to take his money.
And it's not just Kevin.
They always, like, threaten us.
Like, oh, yeah, we'll leave.
I mean, don't threaten me with a good time.
But beyond that, Kevin, that's not going to be your main problem.
When you don't have any consumers, that's going to be your main problem.
You have to protect the American middle class economy.
You know, you could argue that's the goose that lays the golden eggs, and you guys keep chipping away and chipping away at that middle class.
And so right now, Stephen, this late into the conversation, still no plans on what to do with inevitable massive unemployment.
And what I'm telling you is we're not going to go necessarily to communism, but we are going to wonder, wait, why is everyone unemployed and only a couple of people have reaped billions or trillions of dollars?
And
And come on, Kevin, you know how the economy works and the markets work.
Yes, you invest into it in the beginning.
And that's why right now they're theoretically losing billions of dollars.
Same exact thing that happened to Amazon.