Ro Khanna
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of worldview that I don't think people fully understand.
And especially with AI, where they're talking about eliminating jobs.
I mean, Musk is saying, let's just eliminate jobs.
This is what we have to stand up to.
Are we going to have an AI revolution for all of us or for these billionaires?
Are we going to have a country for all of us or these powerful few?
And that to me is the biggest issue.
Look, in the Gilded Age, Rockefeller was the wealthiest person compared to the GDP.
Musk just surpassed that with 700 billion.
700 billion.
So as a percent of GDP, we now have people who are at the wealthiest relative to everyone else.
And there's an unholy alliance between wealth and power.
They just want to threaten me.
Imagine this thing, all these billionaires who said, oh, let's recruit someone.
I get these texts.
We're thinking of recruiting someone to run against you.
I'm thinking of funding your opponent.
None of them say I want to run against you.
But imagine this.
Look.