TED Talk: Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming

[Maxxam]

also:

Nick Hanauer on inequality




Same guy from here:

Ultra-Rich Man’s Letter:To My Fellow Filthy Rich Americans: The Pitchforks Are Coming

 

[Efkie]

Seriously, dude has a point.

 

[illdog]

I get greed..a lil is good but, most elites are willing to ride the train until the wheels fall off...He and a few other elites know their history...

http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=852757

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...r-owner-sees-wealth-gap-fueling-social-unrest

 

[sharkbait28]

Thanks for posting.

There's definitely a religious quality to the current prevailing economic (Freidman-esque) thought. The idea that raising minimum wage and investment in the middle class are "bad" for the economy is difficult to reconcile with historical (or even current) data and indices.

I like the way this guy articulates his points. Hopefully we start to see more people come around to this enlightened pov.