Ro Khanna
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You're brilliant like Steve Jobs.
And build Apple?
Great.
You build Tesla, SpaceX?
Great.
I once said to Elon, stick to cars and Mars or something.
You build all that?
Well, fine.
But we've got to have a social contract in this country where the wealth can't just be in the hands of the few.
You've got to have some sense that every person, working class families, are going to benefit from that.
And you get people having health care, child care, education.
That's my view.
I think it has to be designed in a way that you can't tax illiquid stocks.
You can't tax companies that are still not profitable.
You've got to get conversations with people who want to design it in a reasonable way and have a consensus on how to do it.
I'm not saying that you can't fix some of the design, but ultimately,
the idea that having just a 1% tax a year, and a theory on building wealth when you make about 10% every year anyway in the stock market, and that you're going to use that to make sure people have health care and child care and education.
I just think that's what's going to prevent a revolution.
You know, think about the guys who went in Venezuela, right?
And, like, they stick the landing despite being shot at.