Nick Hanauer
Nick Hanauer
Nick Hanaueris an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist living in Shoreline, Washington...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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differences minimum-wage boards
Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.
confused government people
Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.
benefit happens job lowest name rates rich system tax
When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.
accepted became economies jobs money people poured prosperity sort top understand view
We became enthralled with the view that wealth trickled down from the top and that if you poured money into rich people, sort of like an ingredient, prosperity and jobs would squirt out of them like donuts. And if you understand economies in the 19th-century way, that view is plausible, and I think a lot of people accepted it.
convinced falsely job main people persuaded schooling simply society
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.
connecting dots explaining invoking largely people persuasion ways
A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.
highly society unequal
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.
innovative valuable
Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.
gets humans mostly power
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
trying
I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one.
drive few great matter middle national thriving wealthy
No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.
creates
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
customers love
The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
earning eat federal flowers good gym minimum mom piano raise sending taking wage yoga
The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.