If it is predominantly wealthy people, then it is wealthy people who have power in our private sector governance structure.
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Ocasio-Cortez discusses the influence of wealth on corporate governance.
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What he wants to do is create—or rather, not even create, because it’s already been created—but protect a class of impunity in America that says, 'You can commit whatever crime, and so long as you pay a check to us, we will protect you.'
We need to break up a lot of these companies that are far, far too big and we need to be instituting consumer protections for people.
Whether it is kidnapping a foreign head of state, whether it is threatening our allies to colonize Greenland, whether it is looking the other way in a genocide: Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities, and they threaten democracies globally.
What we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.





