Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘You Can’t Earn a Billion Dollars’
‘And so you have to create a myth that — since you didn’t earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it’
May 7, 2026 11:30 PM
By Grabien Staff
EXCERPT:
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right? You can't earn a billion dollars.” GLAZER: “That's right.” OCASIO-CORTEZ: “You just can't earn that.” GLAZER: “That's exactly correct.” OCASIO-CORTEZ: “You can -- you can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws.” GLAZER: “Yeah.” OCASIO-CORTEZ: “You can pay people less than what they're worth.” GLAZER: “Yeah.” OCASIO-CORTEZ: “But you can't earn that, right?” GLAZER: “That's right.”