Who wants to be a billionaire?

In his latest essay, “How to Earn a Billion Dollars”, Paul Graham does his best impression of a condescending prick while trying to explain that it is possible to have a billion dollars without cheating. This was in response to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s comment that: There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn. This is my interpretation of Ocasio-Cortez’s words: no one deserves to have one billion dollars of their own. You can get to them by ways both lawful — underpaying your workers, abusing labor laws, etc. — and, of course, unlawful, but you can’t earn them. Somewhere on your path to a billion, in fact in too many places to count, you will have broken a moral, ethical, personal or public standard, sold your soul piece by piece, through acts diabolical when…