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HarveyDarkey

(9,077 posts)
Thu May 17, 2012, 10:44 PM May 2012

Know That TED Talk You Weren't Supposed To See? Here It Is [View all]

Nick Hanauer, self-described "super-rich" entrepreneur, gave a pretty compelling TED Talk about how the middle class—not the super-rich—are the real job creators. But TED, which has released over 100 different political videos in the past, thought this one was too partisan and chose not to release it. We didn't notice any flaming partisanship in it. We normally love TED, and were surprised they didn't think this talk was TEDworthy.

Under pressure from the Internets, TED finally relented and released the video. Watch it and decide for yourself if it's really all that controversial to say that the "super-rich are not job creators." Then share it like crazy.



http://www.upworthy.com/breaking-you-know-that-nick-hanauer-ted-talk-you-werent-supposed-to-see-here-it-?c=cd1
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What's 'controversial' is his money. xchrom May 2012 #1
Thank You, Nick! Raster May 2012 #2
When this hit Reddit I think there was only one outcome. joshcryer May 2012 #3
This is actually great. lumberjack_jeff May 2012 #4
Thank you. EFerrari May 2012 #5
K & R He tells it like it is. nt Speck Tater May 2012 #6
One of the good guys. He's involved in some very worthwhile gateley May 2012 #7
Wish I could rec this more than once! snappyturtle May 2012 #8
K&R me b zola May 2012 #9
The term "Job Creators" is spin of trickle-down economics. AdHocSolver May 2012 #10
A huge K&R for this! Poll_Blind May 2012 #11
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