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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “So really, when we talk about compensation for risk, it is not that all people in our economy are compensated for risk…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2020
So really, when we talk about compensation for risk, it is not that all people in our economy are compensated for risk, just that a certain narrow class is compensated for risk of capital, but not necessarily risk of life.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez highlights inequality in compensation for risk between capital and frontline workers.

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