Author: Nick Hanauer

Quotes

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

We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have convinced ourselves, that we are the main job creators. It's simply not true.

We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have convinced ourselves, that we are the main job creators. It's simply not true.

- 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

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

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

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