Nick Hanauer: The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward
Nick Hanauer: Prljava tajna kapitalizma - i novi put naprijed
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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u kapitalizmu
of dollars in market value,
desetina milijardi dolara,
I'm in the top .01 percent of all earners.
ja sam u gornjih 0,01 posto
to share the secrets of our success,
tajne našeg uspjeha
have never been richer.
nikada nisu bili bogatiji.
of the economic pie every year?
svake godine?
than we were 30 years ago?
no što smo mi bili prije 30 godina?
than we once did?
u kojem je ekonomska profesija
in which the economics profession
a little bit of a problem.
za provođenje ekonomskih politika
or raise wages for workers.
ili povećavaju plaće radnicima.
would be a terrible mistake,
always kills economic growth,
uvijek ubija ekonomski rast,
samo u Sjedinjenim Državama,
21 trillion dollars richer
bogatije za 21 bilijun dolara,
have grown 900 billion dollars poorer,
siromašnije za 900 milijardi dolara,
that has largely repeated itself
koji se u velikoj mjeri ponavlja
struggle to get by
bore za preživljavanje
in about 40 years,
otprilike 40 godina,
that the only reasonable response
upozoravaju da je jedini razuman odgovor
of austerity and globalization
štednjom i globalizacijom,
what we need to do.
što bismo trebali činiti.
as the dismal science,
kao turobna znanost,
because as much as it is taught today,
jer kako se danas predaje,
of the dazzling mathematics.
of academics and practitioners
akademika i praktičara
economic theory is dangerously wrong
opasno pogrešna
of rising inequality
sve veće nejednakosti
of decades of bad economic theory.
loše ekonomske teorije.
that made me so rich isn't just wrong,
koja je mene učinila tako bogatim
that creates economic growth,
koji stvara ekonomski rast,
that promotes the public good,
što promiče javno dobro,
that produces our prosperity,
što proizvodi naš napredak,
that is neither just nor inclusive
koja nije ni pravedna niti uključiva,
of social cooperation
visoku razinu društvene suradnje
a modern society to thrive.
that it's become painfully obvious
that undergird neoliberal economic theory
neoliberalnu ekonomsku teoriju
through some of those mistaken assumptions
kroz neke od tih pogrešnih pretpostavki
suggests prosperity actually comes from.
zapravo dolazi, po viđenju znanosti.
assumption number one is
ekonomska pretpostavka je
an efficient equilibrium system,
ravnotežni sustav,
in the economy, like wages, goes up,
u ekonomiji, poput plaća, raste,
like jobs, must go down.
poput poslova, mora opadati.
gdje ja živim,
our nation's first 15 dollar minimum wage,
minimalnu satnicu od 15 dolara,
over their precious equilibrium.
zbog svoje dragocjene ravnoteže.
of labor," they warned,
will lose their jobs.
izgubit će posao.
doesn't kill jobs, it creates them;
već ih stvara;
required to pay restaurant workers enough
zahtijeva da dovoljno plaćaju svoje radnike,
can afford to eat in restaurants,
priuštiti da jedu u restoranima,
is always equal to its value,
vrijednosti toga,
that if you earn 50,000 dollars a year
vi zaradite 50 tisuća dolara godišnje,
a thousand times as much value as you.
tisuću puta veću vrijednost od vas.
isplaćuje 50 milijuna dolara godišnje,
50 million dollars a year
minimalni dohodak.
who has run dozens of businesses:
tko je vodio desetine firmi:
the power to negotiate,
uspiju postići pregovaranjem.
koji se odnosi na plaće
have become less productive
postali manje produktivni,
have become more powerful.
postali moćniji.
in power between capital and labor
između snaga kapitala i rada
became essentially
postala je u suštini
and by far the most pernicious,
i daleko najopasnija,
as something called "homo economicus,"
zvano "homo economicus",
that we are all perfectly selfish,
savršeno sebični,
and relentlessly self-maximizing.
na povećanje vlastitog profita.
for your entire life,
tijekom cijelog svog života,
nice for somebody else,
was maximizing your own utility?
vlastite koristi?
on a grenade to defend fellow soldiers,
granatu da bi obranio svoje suborce,
their narrow self-interest?
moral intuition,
moralnoj intuiciji,
of neoliberal economics,
neoliberalne ekonomije
prosperity in it,
acts of selfishness
nesebičnih djela
into prosperity and the common good.
u napredak i zajedničko dobro.
selfish maximizers,
tek sebični maksimizatori,
is the cause of our prosperity.
would be to slow economic growth
usporavanje ekonomskog rasta
of neoliberal economics,
neoliberalne ekonomije,
which has produced economic policies
ekonomsku politiku,
in the top one percent
bogatim prijateljima u gornjih jedan posto
of growth over the last 40 years.
rasta tijekom zadnjih 40 godina.
empiričko istraživanje,
describes human beings
ljudska bića opisuje
super-snaga čovječanstva.
permission to be our best selves,
da budemo najbolji što možemo biti,
that this new economics
imagined or invented.
smislio ili izumio.
are being developed and refined
razvijani su i razrađivani
new research in economics,
istraživanja u ekonomiji,
and other disciplines.
i drugim disciplinama.
does not yet have its own textbook
još uvijek nema svoj udžbenik,
comes from goes something like this.
napredak, ide otprilike ovako:
is an evolutionary system
je evolucijski sustav
and increasing amounts of consumer demand.
i rastuće količine potražnje potrošača.
by which we solve human problems,
ljudske probleme,
through which the market selects
putem koje tržište odabire
we become more prosperous.
mi postajemo sve napredniji.
of social and economic cooperation
društvene i ekonomske kooperacije
the more highly specialized products
visoko specijaliziranih proizvoda
is correct, of course,
je u pravu, naravno,
in how markets work,
u funkcioniranju tržišta,
between highly cooperative groups --
visoko kooperativnih grupa --
competition between networks of firms,
natjecanje između mreža poduzeća,
a successful business knows
uspješno poslovanje zna
by including the talents of everyone
uključivanjem talenata svih članova
than just a bunch of selfish jerks.
nego tek gomila sebičnih kretena.
more prosperous
just five rules of thumb.
tek pet općih pravila.
are not jungles, they're gardens,
nisu džungle, one su vrtovi,
social technology ever invented
tehnologija ikada izumljena
or democratic regulation,
ili demokratskom regulacijom,
more problems than they solve.
no što ih rješavaju.
is both wrong and backwards.
istovremeno pogrešna i nazadna.
in market economies.
u tržišnim ekonomijama.
is not merely to enrich shareholders.
nije samo bogaćenje dioničara.
in contemporary economic life
ekonomskom životu
the only purpose of the corporation
da je jedina svrha korporacije
of all stakeholders:
doesn't make you a capitalist,
upon cooperation at scale as ours,
i toliko ovisnoj o suradnji,
as it is for society.
kao i za društvo.
as unchangeable natural law,
prirodni zakon,
and constructed narratives
i iskonstruirani narativi
and more sustainable economy,
funkcionirajuće demokracije
odabrati da je imamo.
I'm sure you get this question a lot.
postavljaju ovo pitanje.
with the economic system,
ekonomskim sustavom,
and join the 99 percent?
i pridružiš se 99 posto?
why don't you pay more,
zašto ne plaćaš više,
why don't you pay more?"
zašto ne plaćaš više?"
a hundred thousand times better --
sto tisuća puta bolje.
za gradnju narativa i donošenje zakona
to build narratives and to pass laws
svih drugih bogatih ljudi
all the other rich people
i da bolje plaćaju svoje radnike.
that we cooked up
koju smo skuhali
na 30 milijuna radnika.
naći ćemo neke primatelje za vas.
we'll find some takers for you.
Moderator: Thank you very much.
Moderator: Puno vam hvala.
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.
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