Nick Hanauer Quotes

• The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

  Nick Hanauer

  Law, Ideas, Fundamentals

  Fuente: gawker.com

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• La persona que gana el salario mínimo federal de 7,25 dólares no sale a comer a restaurantes. No va a clases de piano. No va al gimnasio ni al estudio de yoga. No le envía flores a mamá el Día de la Madre. ¿De qué le sirve a la economía? Si lo subes a 15 dólares la hora, harán todas esas cosas. Y de repente, no sólo prosperan los negocios, sino también las pequeñas empresas.

  Nick Hanauer

  Mom, Mother, Flower

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Thinking, Wings, Ideas

  Fuente: gawker.com

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• My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.

  Nick Hanauer

  Jobs, Wages, Scams

  Fuente: gawker.com

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• You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it that way."

  Nick Hanauer

  Years, People, Pay

  Fuente: gawker.com

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• If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

  Nick Hanauer

  Jobs, Would Be, Today

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• But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Unemployment, Minimum Wage, Littles

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• When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

  Nick Hanauer

  Jobs, Squirrels, Creating

  "Here Is the Full Inequality Speech and Slideshow That Was Too Hot for TED". www.theatlantic.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

  Nick Hanauer

  Corte, Pensamiento, Gente

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• The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

  Nick Hanauer

  Class, People, Helping

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• If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

  Nick Hanauer

  Real, Care, Social

  Fuente: gawker.com

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• I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

  Nick Hanauer

  País, Gente, Esfuerzo

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

  Nick Hanauer

  Feet, Long, Boat

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• 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.

  Nick Hanauer

  Differences, Boards, Minimum Wage

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Los trabajadores de comida rápida son todo lo que el gobernador puede promulgar. La legislatura de tu estado es rehén de los mismos imbéciles que tienen de rehén al [gobierno] federal. Gente que ha confundido el colectivismo asfixiante, que es malo, con la necesidad de resolver problemas de acción colectiva, que es en lo que se basa todo esfuerzo humano.

  Nick Hanauer

  Confused, Government, People

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

  Nick Hanauer

  Ideas, Employment, Wages

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

  Nick Hanauer

  People, Threshold, Complexes

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.

  Nick Hanauer

  Simple, Administration, Minimum Wage

  Fuente: gawker.com

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• The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

  Nick Hanauer

  Class, Minimum Wage, Middle

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

  Nick Hanauer

  Trabajo, Pensar, Dos

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• I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

  Nick Hanauer

  Country, Thinking, Conservative

  Fuente: gawker.com

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