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Inequality
Nick Hanauer
TED Talk ... Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer
Peter Burgess
Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer
1,128,643 views•Aug 12, 2014
TED 19.6M subscribers
Nick Hanauer is a rich guy, an unrepentant capitalist — and he has something to say to his fellow plutocrats: Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling pre-revolutionary France. Hear his argument about why a dramatic increase in minimum wage could grow the middle class, deliver economic prosperity ... and prevent a revolution.
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Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer 'Rich people don't create jobs'
2,782,654 views•May 18, 2012
Zubenelgenubiii 5.67K subscribers
Via Business Insider: 'As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don't actually create jobs. The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject. National Journal reports today that TED officials decided not to put Hanauer's March 1 speech up online after deeming his remarks 'too politically controversial' for the site...'.