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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Sun May 20, 2012, 08:49 PM May 2012

When the cost to attend a TED conference is a thousand dollars....or more

and 84% of America is living paycheck to paycheck, I think you can assume that someone who pays thousands of dollars to attend a TEDie is in the minority and extrapolating out from that fact....I would make an assumption that most of the people attending are wealthy white folks, in other words, 1%ers that would not like to hear about what Nick had to say.....therefore, cut that video decision was easy and yet wonderful for the 99ers.....

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