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Mr_Jefferson_24

(8,559 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:28 PM Dec 2014

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

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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....


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Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs" (Original Post) Mr_Jefferson_24 Dec 2014 OP
I have a feeling he was just warming up Kalidurga Dec 2014 #1
Not sure. I assumed it was just... Mr_Jefferson_24 Dec 2014 #2
that's disappointing Kalidurga Dec 2014 #3
I thought he defended his thesis pretty well... Mr_Jefferson_24 Dec 2014 #4
Good evaluation. Indydem Dec 2014 #5
WOW! Now there's a real shocker... Mr_Jefferson_24 Dec 2014 #6
He said all there was to say--I appreciate him not wasting my time. Demeter Dec 2014 #7
Then, why in the hay are we giving them tax inducements? Baitball Blogger Dec 2014 #8
Good question. Mr_Jefferson_24 Dec 2014 #10
DU had the whole talk a few months ago. pansypoo53219 Dec 2014 #9
Trickle down economics are a joke Gothmog Dec 2014 #11

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
3. that's disappointing
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:58 PM
Dec 2014

I didn't look at the time on the video and I was listening and I was like oh he's really warming up now and then bam speech over and t then I looked at the time wow I was expecting at least a half an hour.

Mr_Jefferson_24

(8,559 posts)
4. I thought he defended his thesis pretty well...
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:08 PM
Dec 2014

... in the admittedly brief time he spoke.

But then again, I tend to judge the quality of a presentation primarily on content, not duration.

Mr_Jefferson_24

(8,559 posts)
6. WOW! Now there's a real shocker...
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:53 PM
Dec 2014

... Forbes trashing a presentation by a wealthy individual exposing the myth that rich people are job creators.

And going so far as falsely claiming that he didn't get censored.

Funny? Yes. Convincing? Not so much.

pansypoo53219

(20,976 posts)
9. DU had the whole talk a few months ago.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 10:24 PM
Dec 2014

i watched it. he repeated what i have been thinking for years + i am not an economics guru.

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