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Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | ||
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
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. Watch more TED Talks on inequality: http://www.ted.com/topics/inequality TED Talks is a daily podcast of talks and performances from TED events, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED Talks on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tedtalks Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED 7,239 Comments Peter Burgess Add a public comment... darkskyinwinter -------------------------------------- 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...'.
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