{"id":2696,"date":"2012-05-17T08:34:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T06:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2012-05-17T08:34:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T06:34:58","slug":"ted-censors-presentation-about-why-rich-people-arent-job-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2012\/05\/17\/ted-censors-presentation-about-why-rich-people-arent-job-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"TED censors Presentation About Why Rich People Aren’t Job Creators"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are some really powerful and interesting TED talks that I really appreciated over the years. I even thought about making it a longer term goal to save up and go to one of the conferences. Who knows, maybe it’ll happen.<\/p>\n

But reading this article<\/a> I became very frustrated. How can it be that an organization dedicated to “Ideas Worth Spreading” censors a talk that focuses so clearly on the core of the social problems created by a disappearing middle class?<\/p>\n

I’m glad, that the text of Nick Hanauers talk is available here<\/a> and I urge all of you to read it!<\/p>\n

For me the central message here is the fact, that every human being depends on the next human being both as a consumer and as a creator. Especially in the media business we need to find a way to re-establish this respectful relationship. It has been damaged for the past 13 years by technological development driving a wedge between citizens on both ends of the spectrum.<\/p>\n

We’ve had it backward for the last 30 years. Rich businesspeople like me don’t create jobs. Rather they are a consequence of an eco-systemic \u00a0feedback loop animated by middle-class consumers, and when they thrive, businesses grow and hire, and owners profit. That’s why taxing the rich to pay for investments that benefit all is a great deal for both the middle class and the rich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nick Hanauer TED Presentation About Why Rich People Aren’t Job Creators – Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are some really powerful and interesting TED talks that I really appreciated over the years. I even thought about making it a longer term goal to save up and go to one of the conferences. Who knows, maybe it’ll happen. But reading this article I became very frustrated. How can it be that an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[165,103,119],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-political","tag-equality","tag-social","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}