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Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer
TED
Billionaire Nick Hanauer warns fellow wealthy people in a TED talk that growing inequality could lead to social upheaval like pre-revolutionary France. He argues a higher minimum wage would grow the middle class and prosperity.
HN brings it up in inequality, UBI and backlash threads as an early warning from a rich insider.
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