Jon Lovett

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They went to the crowd to a guy named Shuck Chumer, who was like, answer the question.

It's so funny.

Well, he's like, I'm going to read you the editorial board so that it focuses on free markets and like, you know, not attacking success.

It's like, you know, promises made, promises kept, I guess.

I don't know what that editorial board would do.

Yeah.

Does that mean that they broke the law or not put the law like I don't know why we need to be debating that So I feel like it's um, I was thinking there was something about the online debate That was very frustrating to me because there's a lot of people talking There's a few there's a few aspects of the online debate that we can get into We start with the billionaires one and and I and I was trying to figure out what was bugging me about it and it is I think because

you end up in this conversation in which the terms are moral and fuzzy terms like earned legitimate deserved and those are good moral language in I actually think the debate over the the could have morality who can amass vast sums of wealth and how to do is not like I don't think it I it more than academic I think the way we have it is academic but

What was interesting to me is the response.

It is absurd that Jeff Bezos' paper is writing a defensive of billionaires.

And what was interesting about the defense is they always land on celebrities like Taylor Swift and Seinfeld and people like- Likeable people.

Well, likeable people and people that, you know, nobody had a pee in a bottle for Taylor Swift to write the music, right?

Nobody had to sew sneakers with their little hands, right?

You see that documentary about the Air Store?