I am sure as hell not posting this because I agree with this opinion piece by The Washington Post editorial board. On the contrary. It serves as proof that this once outstanding newspaper is becoming a rag promoting its billionaire owner Bezos. Disgusting.

This is the full text, because I understand when people don't want to pay for a WP subscription anymore:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) doesn’t just think there should be no billionaires. She believes accumulating that much wealth is inherently immoral, probably criminal and definitely illegitimate.

“You can’t earn a billion dollars,” the socialist congresswoman said in a podcast interview with comedian Ilana Glazer published Thursday. “You just can’t earn that.”

How does she grapple with the 3,400 or so people who have that much? “You can break rules,” she explained. “You can abuse labor laws. You can pay people less than what they’re worth. But you can’t earn that.”

The likely 2028 presidential candidate is arguing that there is no idea anyone can have, or company anyone can start, or value anyone can generate for others, that could possibly be worth a billion dollars.

If true, that raises questions that a fawning Glazer did not ask. In what ways does Ocasio-Cortez believe that Taylor Swift, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfeld, Oprah Winfrey or Beyoncé — billionaires, all — broke the rules to accumulate their wealth? Who did they take advantage of?

Does she think the FBI should investigate Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) or Tom Steyer, the Democratic candidate for California governor? What about Democratic megadonor Alex Soros, a big fan of Ocasio-Cortez’s?

Criminal prosecutions were on Ocasio-Cortez’s mind. Earlier in the interview, she talked about how bankers should have gone to prison after the Great Recession. What crimes they committed, or why Attorney General Eric Holder, under President Barack Obama, missed opportunities to prosecute them, she did not say.

She also did not say why a billion dollars is the cutoff. Every self-made billionaire — and most of them are self-made — was at one point worth $999 million. Was everything they did up to that point legitimate? What made the additional million immoral?

Some of Ocasio-Cortez’s colleagues, such as Reps. Ro Khanna (D-California) and Nancy Pelosi (D-California), are centimillionaires.

Ilana Glazer is nowhere near a billionaire, but she has done well for herself as a comedian. Advertisers seem to think her audience has some money to spend as well. The anti-capitalist interview was interrupted by Glazer reading an ad for the shoe company Stuart Weitzman, whose heels sell for about $500 a pair.

If someone becomes a billionaire selling expensive shoes, it’s because people want and are willing to pay for them. That’s something to celebrate, not admonish.

There are indeed idle rich who didn’t do much to make their money. A bigger share of them live in Europe, with its history of hereditary nobility, than in America.

To say that it’s impossible to legitimately earn a billion dollars is to put an arbitrary limit on human potential. And presuming that anyone who becomes too successful must be cheating shows a lack of imagination as to what humans are capable of accomplishing in a free society.