Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming
نيك هانوار: احذروا، يا زملائي البلتوقراطيين، العصي آتية!
Nick Hanauer has become an important voice in the raging debate on inequality — and his provocative argument is aimed at his fellow plutocrats. Full bio
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في Amazon.com.
ب6.4 مليار دولار
smartest person you've ever met.
أنا لست أذكى شخص قابلته في حياتك
على الإطلاق
الأغنى في امريكا
الأكثر ثراء
اللامساواة الاقتصادية.
المُستغلين والفقراء
والخطية والآلية
equilibrium and toward inequality,
other people's problems.
متوسطي الأجور 1000 مرة
للأجور في سياتل
workers have more money,
اكتسب العاملون مالًا أكثر،
أليس كذلك؟
والمدراء أكثر من أي وقت مضى.
have massive unemployment.
مواجهة البطالة الرهيبة
في المقاولات الصغرى
من الأجر أكثر قليلًا،
entrepreneurs in other places,
لرواد الأعمال في أماكنهم
يُدفع لهم ما يكفي
ستكون هناك منافسة حقيقية
بالنسبة للرأسمالية.
كالتعليم، والبحث والتطوير
والأحكام المسبقة
وأننا نخلق الوظائف،
the worst of circumstances
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nick Hanauer - Venture capitalist, authorNick Hanauer has become an important voice in the raging debate on inequality — and his provocative argument is aimed at his fellow plutocrats.
Why you should listen
Nick Hanauer has founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries, with a pretty notable record of success. As a few highlights, he cofounded a company called aQuantive that sold to Microsoft for $6.4 billion, and was the first non-family investor in Amazon.
Meanwhile Hanauer, a “proud and unapologetic capitalist,” has also been looking closely at society’s growing inequality gap, and the consequences it holds for our shared destiny — and the ultimate fate of our democracies. In 2007, he and civic activist Eric Liu co-wrote the book The True Patriot, an examination of progressive patriotism. This was followed by 2011’s The Gardens of Democracy, also with Liu, a vision for “growing” good citizens.
In 2013, Hanauer published a commentary in Bloomberg BusinessWeek proposing a $15 minimum wage (a suggestion that Seattle acted on this year). Early in 2014, he and Eric Beinhocker published "Capitalism, Redefined." In the summer of 2014, Hanauer published a much-shared essay in Politico that suggests, if societal inequality is allowed to grow unchecked, modern societies could start looking an awful lot like pre-Revolutionary France.
He is working on a new book, due out in 2015.
Nick Hanauer | Speaker | TED.com