Author: Nick Hanauer

Quotes

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.

- Nick Hanauer

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

- Nick Hanauer

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

- Nick Hanauer

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

- Nick Hanauer

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

- Nick Hanauer

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