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I think her opinion is too extreme but there is truth in the general point.

You don’t become a billionaire businessman without taking advantage of people somewhere along the line, including paying them less than the true value of their labor.

The fiat currency system produces some very wealthy individuals as a side effect of monetary policy. In the last 10 years anyone who owned real assets saw a huge increase in their net worth as a result of Central Bank policies that harmed those living on fixed incomes

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I am a liberal Democrat, and I wish she would get the hell out of my party.

She's not a serious person, and she has no serious ideas.

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Tired of this, really.

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I hate AOC and I'm a Democrat

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I think it’s easy to dismiss her as crazy or fringe, but I, like P1, see the basis of an interesting observation. At a certain point enterprises become so outrageously profitable and entrenched that they write their own rules.

I don’t see a way to draw a thick black line at which that point is reached. We have illustrative examples with Amazon and Walmart, who pay wages insufficient to support a bare minimum lifestyle, just because they can, and force taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

I am all for capitalism in the abstract but I can’t help but feel something is wrong when you work a full time job and still need food stamps to survive.

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You need food stamp when you have kids. Otherwise a minimum wage full time job is enough for one to survive. The solution is not to have kids before you are able to.

She's trivializing what my ancestors went through by comparing it to slavery

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Nope SA1. Bad take.

She's a member of Congress. If she doesn't approve of people making profit off the labor of others, she has the ability to propose legislation to prevent it. Those proposed rules would never pass but until the proposal is written, these are just talking points for dividing the electorate into segments based on historical class guidelines.

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I’m a Dem. AOC is not helpful in anyway.

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AOC has no concept of reality.

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I think any profitable employee is "exploited". I mean I actually know the difference between my billing rate and my salary. You could call that serious exploitation.

However I'm capable of thinking about it a little more deeply than the audience AOC tends to fire up.

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Well, you are perfectly capable of not being exploited. Your call.

AOC is the democratic version of Jim Jordan. A fringe Congressman in a very safe district. She'll never be the deciding vote on meaningful legal so I don't take her seriously.

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She’s quite the social experiment.

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Hahaha I agree ☝️

Ask her how Scandinavia people got rich? There are very few black and brown people there. Many under documented workers?

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She is radical and doesn’t realize it. But radicals never do.

About her idea, she trivializes the invention and work process, two things she has never done in her life. Every person “exploited” by this man gladly traded their work time for money to live on. It is difficult to call them exploited when they signed up knowing what the bargain was.

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Do you mean none of them had other choices and they were willing to starve?

This is probably the wrong place to find many people gunho for AOC. Even those who are pretty left on here (including myself) aren't joining their local DSA chapter anytime soon.

Yeah, but didn’t you hear her today? She is a moderate conservative, there is no Left party in the US. 🤥🤥🙄🙄

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