Interessanter Vortrag: "The Inequality Speech"

[Niggels]

Nick Hanauer, ein millionenschwerer Unternehmensberater und Aktienhändler aus den USA, hat bei einer Konferenz einen kurzen und anschaulichen Vortrag, warum das Argument höhere Steuern für Reiche würden Arbeitsplätze bedrohen hinten und vorne nicht stimmt.

"If taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down. This idea has indeed shaped much of the economic landscape. (...) Rich people like me don’t create jobs, jobs are a consequence of an eco-systemic feedback loop between customers and businesses. And when the middle-class thrives, businesses grow and hire — and owners profit. That’s why taxing the rich to pay for investments that benefit all, is such a fantastic deal for the middle-class and the rich.

That's why when business people take credit for creating jobs, it's a little bit like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. It's actually the other way around."

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Die 5-6 Minuten Zeit fürs Video sollte man sich nehmen!

Das Interessante:
Der Vortrag wurde von der Konferenzleitung nicht online gestellt, obwohl das sonst bei den Beiträgen dieser Konferenz Standard ist. Begründung: Die rede sei "zu mittelmäßig"! Von den Medien, allen voran von Forbes und wirtschaftsfreundlichen Zeitungen, bezog Nick Hanauer für diese kurze Rede mächtig Schelte. Sie wurde regelrecht auseinander gepflückt, teilweise mit sehr verzerrten Darstellungen von Hanauers Worten.

Getroffene Hunde bellen!! :rolleyes:

[Cholet]

Vielen Dank fuer den Verweis. Sehr interessant. Wobei es bei den Amis mit dem Argument "das waere jetzt sinnvoll" nicht getan ist. :/


Waere aber interessant zu wissen, woher du die Info hast, dass die Rede nicht hochgeladen wurde - habe ich jetzt eben nicht entdecken koennen? Ein Link oder so zu einem News-Artikel waere toll.

[Niggels]

Waere aber interessant zu wissen, woher du die Info hast, dass die Rede nicht hochgeladen wurde - habe ich jetzt eben nicht entdecken koennen? Ein Link oder so zu einem News-Artikel waere toll.

Zum Beispiel:

<a href='http://business.time.com/2012/05/18/was-nick-hanauers-ted-talk-on-income-inequality-too-rich-for-rich-people/' target='_blank'>http://business.time.com/2012/05/18/was-ni...or-rich-people/</a>

Their slogan is “ideas worth spreading.” But the folks at TED – the Technology Entertainment and Design nonprofit behind the TED Talks, beloved by geeks and others interested in novel new ideas – evidently think that some ideas are better left unspread. At least when the ideas in question challenge the conventional wisdom that rich enterpreneurs are the number one job creators.

This past March, millionaire tech investor and entrepreneur Nick Hanauer – one of the early backers of Amazon.com – gave a talk at a TED conference in which, among other things, suggested that middle-class consumers, not rich people, are the real job creators – and that because of this rich people should be paying more in taxes. Though the talk drew applause from conference attendees at the time, TED Talk curator Chris Anderson decided it wasn’t worth sharing with the wider world, and refused to post it on TED’s website.

Read more: <a href='http://business.time.com/2012/05/18/was-nick-hanauers-ted-talk-on-income-inequality-too-rich-for-rich-people/#ixzz29aKDm5iA' target='_blank'>http://business.time.com/2012/05/18/was-ni.../#ixzz29aKDm5iA</a>

<a href='http://www.ibtimes.com/ted-censors-seattle-multimillionaire-nick-hanauers-talk-income-inequality-taxing-rich-698886' target='_blank'>http://www.ibtimes.com/ted-censors-seattle...ing-rich-698886</a>

Nick Hanauer, a multimillionaire venture capitalist from Seattle, believes that rich people like himself aren't job creators. He made this known during a March 1 TED University conference where he spoke about income inequality, but that talk was censored.

The National Journal reported that officials at TED, a popular series of Web-based talks, told Hanauer in an April email that they wanted to put his talk out into the world! However, they quickly shifted gear and said the venture capitalist's talk was political and too controversial to be posted.

<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_%28conference%29#Controversies_and_criticism' target='_blank'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_%28confer...s_and_criticism</a>

ED attracted controversy when it chose not to link venture capitalist Nick Hanauer's speech at TED university on their website. The speech analysed the top rate of tax versus unemployment and economic equality.[51][52][53] In a private email to Hanauer, Chris Anderson commented on his decision, noting: "Nick, I personally share your disgust at the growth in inequality in the US, and would love to have found a way to give people a clearer mindset on the issue, without stoking a tedious partisan rehash of all the arguments we hear every day in the mainstream media. Alas, my judgement is that publishing your talk would not meet that goal."[54] Anderson later pointed out that TED only posts one talk every day, selected from many.[55] Forbes Staff writer Bruce Upbin described Hanauer's talk as "shoddy and dumb".[56]

[Cholet]

Ah super, vielen lieben Dank

Direkt nach meinem Post kam mir gestern auch schon in den Sinn, dass ich ja die maechtige Kraft von Google besitze und deshalb selbst suchen kann. Hatte auch noch bei Forbes ein paar Artikel darueber gefunden. Lustigerweise mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen.