On the recordFebruary 4, 2020
The idea and this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a joke because it is a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap.
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Ocasio-Cortez critiques the unrealistic notion of self-sufficiency in poverty.
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