> AOC also doesn't say anything about "moral", etc.
She says you can't earn it and then gives several examples in a row of immoral and/or rentier economic practices. At no point does she give any example that is what most people would call moral behaviour. She does not give the example pg gives, of simply working hard for it. The implication is that it is impossible to earn that level of wealth morally.
Earn is already defined in the dictionary in both ways perfectly well, and she is using the sense of deserved. pg clearly knows she's using it that way, and his argument is:
1. You can make a billion dollars
2. You can do it by making something people want
That deals with both senses of earn because none of AOC's examples apply and he adds that:
> The reason her startup was growing so fast was that she and her cofounder had been working their asses off to make their users happy
How is that immoral? How is that unearned? If you think it's unearned then you've failed to understand the maths he elucidates in the article, or you've taken a position that earning large amounts of money by any means is immoral (or, like AOC, wish to present the straw man that it's only possible through immoral means).
The trouble is, a lot of people just cannot think clearly beyond their own ideology. It apparently makes even reading and understanding a short text difficult.
She says you can't earn it and then gives several examples in a row of immoral and/or rentier economic practices. At no point does she give any example that is what most people would call moral behaviour. She does not give the example pg gives, of simply working hard for it. The implication is that it is impossible to earn that level of wealth morally.
Earn is already defined in the dictionary in both ways perfectly well, and she is using the sense of deserved. pg clearly knows she's using it that way, and his argument is:
1. You can make a billion dollars
2. You can do it by making something people want
That deals with both senses of earn because none of AOC's examples apply and he adds that:
> The reason her startup was growing so fast was that she and her cofounder had been working their asses off to make their users happy
How is that immoral? How is that unearned? If you think it's unearned then you've failed to understand the maths he elucidates in the article, or you've taken a position that earning large amounts of money by any means is immoral (or, like AOC, wish to present the straw man that it's only possible through immoral means).