AOC’s billionaire attack sells Gen Z a smaller, sadder American Dream

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been roundly and rightly mocked for her recent claim that "you can’t earn" a billion dollars. But with respect to my fellow conservatives and free-marketeers, the real problem with her latest anti-billionaire broadside isn’t that it’s economically illiterate. The bigger issue — by far — is that AOC is subtly dismissing the innate human drive to strive and succeed. She isn’t just saying that billionaires are illegitimate. She’s effectively saying that becoming a billionaire is impossible, so don’t even try.