Wednesday, August 10, 2016

3410 - Billionaire talk


I know I know! It's a long video. 20 minutes. Excruciatingly long for the blogosphere. But here is a billionaire talking about the need for the middle class to make a living wage. It's a TED talk.

https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocrats_the_pitchforks_are_coming?language=en

And then I found an article knocking the TED talk and sticking up for the billionaires.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/19/the-ignorance-of-nick-hanauers-ted-speech/#36e7de433ab3

I'm goin' with Nick!


4 comments:

Linda Kay said...

Sheesh, I about cooked in your part of the country last week....the humidity! We have lots of heat in the Hill Country as well, but not as much as Austin, San Antonio and Houston. High in Austin is supposed to be 102, with a head index making it 112! Yikes.

eViL pOp TaRt said...

The rest of us would applaud a living wage for all. There's a lot of folks living marginally here.

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

I am a poorionaire and would give a talk.
I'm on Nick's side - and thank you for the work diversion.

Cloudia said...

Work is supposed to be rewarded in America