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Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: people, time, business, you

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The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: will, facts, rich, change
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: why, who, economics, power
You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: police, society, you, me
I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: houses, sell, two, trying
No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: never, matter, drive, great
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