Showing posts with label The Pitchforks Are Coming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Pitchforks Are Coming. Show all posts

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Beware, Fellow Plutocrats, The Pitchforks Are Coming

Staff Writer, R. Patrick Chapman
Corporations / Economics
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Nick Hanauer is a rich guy, an unrepentant capitalist — and he has something to say to his fellow plutocrats: Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling pre-revolutionary France. Hear his argument about why a dramatic increase in minimum wage could grow the middle class, deliver economic prosperity ... and prevent a revolution.
But will anyone listen?


Source: TED