Billionaire-focused political criticism is described as inconsistent with tax and employment realities. The claim that billionaires do not pay their fair share is challenged using tax base and contribution figures, alongside the argument that billionaires earn more than others and could pursue similar success. Wealth creation is framed as a strength of the United States, where people can start with little and become extremely wealthy. The criticism also targets the assumption that very high earners must have stolen wealth or victimized others. A specific view attributed to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is that earning a billion dollars through moral behavior is impossible, requiring market power, rule-breaking, labor abuse, or underpaying workers, rather than legitimate earning.
"This idea that it's easy to become a billionaire and that these billionaires somehow or another are the problem because they're not paying their fair share is so weird, Rogan said. That that's a narrative that actually gets pushed through when you look at the actual numbers of the tax base and how much they contribute and how many jobs they provide. He continued, Yeah, they make more money than everybody else. Right. You could do that too. This is one of the things that America is really good at you can come from nothing and become incredibly wealthy."
"Rogan then called out AOC for her disdain for billionaires: We just assume that everybody who makes an incredible amount of money stole it. That they robbed someone. This is a narrative that gets pushed along [by] democratic socialists, that no on achieves that I think I literally heard AOC say this recently that no one achieves substantial wealth without somehow or another victimizing other people."
"He was referring to comments AOC made on a podcast earlier this month, where she said it's impossible to become a billionaire by acting morally. You can't earn a billion dollars, the New York lawmaker said. You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. You can pay people less than what they're worth. But you can't earn that, right? And so you have to create a myth You have to create a myth of earning it, she added."
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