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Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer 'Rich people don't create jobs'

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Peter Burgess

Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer 'Rich people don't create jobs'

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...'.