I agree. You can't earn a billion dollars as a bartender. You've proven her point, my guy. Here's why:

Based on data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average age of a bartender is about 35. Most only have a high school diploma, work part-time, and are single (for all intents and purposes in regards to marital status). Using Federal Reserve SCF, OECD, ECB HFCS, and Credit Suisse data and using the basic model for calculating net wealth (income × age × education × employment × marital × savings × assets − debts) with a ±34% uncertainty since we don't have some of those factors we can estimate the average US bartender's net wealth to be somewhere between $13,988 to $28,214, and the average income is about $55,000 (with tips included). At $55,000/year, you would need 15,265,791 years of work to match Elon Musk's wealth. You'd need to live 190,822 full human lifetimes back-to-back. America could declare independence 61,063 times. That's 61,063 Industrial Revolutions stacked end to end. Islam could rise and spread 10,904 times over. Christianity could be founded 7,633 times over. Our entire species could evolve from scratch 51 times. Humans could discover fire 38 times over. Elon Musk earns per second $2,128 if his wealth grows at 8%/year. A bartender's average daily earnings amount to about $151, compared to his $184,000,000 day. He could buy 67,008,657 people full healthcare for a year. Or 2,398,910 homes at the average US home price. Republicans used to call bullcrap on this, and now they seem to just be complacent because they like the rich people who are in charge now. The most recent financial information we have on AOC—which comes from a financial disclosure she filed in late 2024—indicates a maximum net worth of just $31,000 at the time of the filing. That's 0.00220092297% of the money Donald Trump has made during (and using) his second presidency so far (as of January 2026). The $1.4+ billion he has made is 45,435 times her ENTIRE net worth. Please educate yourself—this post is a prime example of why we should stop defunding our schools.

AOC was born into privilege and wealth even if it was 'low end' on the dollar amount. Nothing about her life was 'blue collar' or understanding what that means. Removing all biases and emotions here is the actual breakdown-

Trump - Created jobs and improved a lot in NYC including Central Park. Created or has been involved in over 500 business ventures. Was given an award and accolades by local leaders like Jesse Jackson for helping black and/or poor neighborhoods.

Cortez - Got a bartender license with a minor in business. Never attempted to start any type of business. As a senator she cost her district a lucrative business deal with Amazon that would have provided 1000 well paying jobs. Her district is currently rife with drugs and prostitution and this is before Mamdani became mayor.

So who should we listen to? The person who made the attempt at job creation or the person who never did.

You can trace her origins to the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx and to parents who were downwardly mobile themselves—both born into poverty—who later sought better schools by relocating the family to Yorktown Heights, where the household lived in a modest starter home bought when Alexandria was a toddler. Her father, Sergio, ran a small architecture practice while her mother, Blanca, worked in domestic jobs such as housecleaning and later as a school bus driver. The defining financial event in Ocasio‑Cortez’s story was her father’s sudden death from cancer during her sophomore year of college, an event that produced crushing medical bills and put the family at risk of foreclosure—circumstances that she and her mother publicly recount and that led Alexandria to work long restaurant shifts to help keep the household afloat. She came from a working‑class family that experienced upward mobility and acute financial crisis, and her present financial position is modest relative to many peers in Congress.

yes... they do

How are there billionaires amongst the people of Mao ?
Is this for The Party ?

Democratic Centralism ?

"Abundance for All, that's the Goal. ...We are living through the Singularity." -Peter H. Diamandis, M.D.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSNuB9pj9P8

*Nearly 3hour discussion with Elon and David Blunden of MIT, 2026

Kinda off topic, but it's crazy that people will watch Elon Musk literally bypass authoritarian regimes to give people internet access during literal blackouts and uprisings, then turn around and say he's done nothing good for humanity.

You say that like he's just handing out free Starlink to people in North Korea or something. Starlink is cool, I personally pay for a Roam - 100GB plan. As much as I don't really like Musk as a person, he has some pretty genius products, Starlink being one of the better ones. But Elon Musk is anything but a philanthropist. Every single thing he's done that models philanthropy is to boost revenue at one of his companies or to personally benefit him. So, in conclusion, plenty of his inventions (Tesla, Starlink, stuff at SpaceX, Grok before the weird ass CSAM stuff) have been a net positive for humanity. It does not mean that he, himself, is good for humanity.