AOC Says Nobody Earns a Billion Dollars: “You Can Get Market Power, You Can Break Rules, You Can Abuse Labor Laws, But You Can’t Earn That.”

AOC Says Nobody Earns a Billion Dollars: “You Can Get Market Power, You Can Break Rules, You Can Abuse Labor Laws, But You Can’t Earn That.”

Ocasio-Cortez made the case on “It’s Open with Ilana Glazer,” arguing that any fortune at that scale comes from market power, broken rules, and underpaid workers rather than entrepreneurship. “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned,” she said. The timing isn’t accidental. Democrats are pushing both millionaire and billionaire taxes ahead of the midterms, and the rhetoric is sharpening. California is weighing a billio…