Wow, Paul Graham REALLY missed the point.

How ironic. Extremely successful person tries to justify why he's better or smarter than you, and the way he does it proves that he doesn't even understand what the other person has said.

He kind of proved the point he intended to disprove.

It's not quite as bad as a lottery winner saying "anyone can earn the jackpot", but it's in that direction.

AOC wasn't even being easy to (deliberately) misunderstand, here, like Obama was when he said "you didn't build that".

Of course, like the tan suit critique, the "you didn't build that" pearl-clutchers were all arguing in bad faith.

I don't think Paul Graham is arguing in bad faith here. This post is just, for lack of a better word, "stupid".