The Controversial Talk That "Ted Won't Show You" | The Conference Channel Blog

The Controversial Talk That "Ted Won't Show You" | The Conference Channel Blog: You’d expect a poor person to say:

When the rich take credit for creating jobs, they are like “squirrels taking credit for evolution.”

But, in fact, it’s out of the mouth of venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, who was an early investor in Amazon and is a rich, very rich man. In March he gave a speech at a TED University conference that lambasted income inequality in America and the widely held belief that wealthy Americans should not be taxed at a higher rate because they are great job generators.