The TED talk too political for TED to post...who creates demand?

[darkbeaver]

When was the last time somebody starved to death in Canada or was denied health care?

Hard to say but millions died in the states during the dirty thirties. You ignored "relative poverty". If you see a way to avoid the unfolding calamity I sure wish you'd share it.

 

[petros]

There wasn't welfare in the dirty 30s

 

[darkbeaver]

There wasn't welfare in the dirty 30s

Welfare won't stop what's coming and there were soup kitchens and flops in every town and city in the thirties. You might familiarize yourself with the end game concept Petros, it's the real thing.

 

[BornRuff]

Welfare won't stop what's coming and there were soup kitchens and flops in every town and city in the thirties. You might familiarize yourself with the end game concept Petros, it's the real thing.

"Soup kitchens and flops" certainly are not the same thing as our current social welfare systems.

 

[petros]

The End Game is part of Regina's history.

 

[BornRuff]

Was Nick Hanauer’s TED Talk on Income Inequality Too Rich for Rich People? | Business | TIME.com

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.

His explanation? The talk was “too political” to be posted during an election year, and that “a lot of business managers and entrepreneurs would feel insulted” by some of Hanauer’s arguments. This seems more than a tad disingenuous, since TED generally doesn’t shy away from controversial ideas, and is sometimes so “political” that it invites actual politicians to talk at its conferences.
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I guess it was because he specifically mentioned Republicans and Democrats. Is it partisan to note the stance of the two parties on an issue?

I think that it makes sense that they would want to keep the talks away from overtly political speeches and direct attacks on certain groups for political reasons. You can find way way too much of that in the regular media already.

The attraction of an organization like TED is that it is supposed to stick more to original ideas and research.

 

[petros]

TED isn't for lobbying.

 

[WLDB]

Hard to say but millions died in the states during the dirty thirties.

Of starvation? I doubt it. Suicides went up as did crime but millions of people starving definitely would have been noticed, unless they happened to be in the Ukraine. There millions really did starve to death in the 30s. There is a difference between going hungry for awhile and starving to death.

 

[Walter]

edited

 

[Liberalman]

Good talk and I can't see why it was pulled off of the TED web site but it is allowed on Youtube so it works out at the end of the day.


Nick Hanauer - YouTube

 

[Walter]

Hard to say but millions died in the states during the dirty thirties.QUOTE]
B.S. You cannot prove this.

 

[L Gilbert]

Addressing the OP: the median average income earners are the culprits. That would be the highest number of people earning a certain range of wage as they would be the most common occurring. And what the economies stand on, as far as demand and supply goes, are small- and medium-sized businesses, not large ones, although modern capitalism favors a few large companies controlling everything.