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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “The concentration of wealth in this country has gotten so…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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AOC in Conversation with David Axelrod

Published | Video Starts at 07:33

And the question really is, what do we do about it? Yeah, yeah. And I think, you know, first and foremost, there's a reason he took it personally. Because The concentration of wealth in this country has gotten so dire and so extreme that you can literally name the people who have half of the wealth in this country. It's gotten so extreme that you can name Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, the Waltons. And so, of course, when we criticize the system, the system's gotten so concentrated that they take it as criticisms of themselves. (07:33–07:45)

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Asserts that wealth concentration is so extreme that a few individuals hold half of the country's wealth.

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