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Billionaire Plutocrat Warns: the People Will Be Bringing Pitchforks
https://politicrossing.com ^ | January 29, 2021 | By Chris Widener

Posted on 01/29/2021 11:04:58 AM PST by Red Badger

You may not of heard of Nick Hanauer, but he is one of the most influential tech billionaires of the last 20 years. He was the first non-family member investor in a little company called Amazon. He was friends with Jeff Bezos and when Jeff arrived in Seattle, Nick put together some investors. Nick made out very well. In fact, Nick made out so well, that his even his little brother Adrian also made out very well, now owning the world class Seattle Sounders soccer team. But I digress…

In 2014, Nick wrote an article for political entitled, The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats.

Here is how Nick describes himself in the Politico article:

“You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries—from itsy-bitsy ones like the night club I started in my 20s to giant ones like Amazon.com, for which I was the first non-family investor. Then I founded aQuantive, an Internet advertising company that was sold to Microsoft in 2007 for $6.4 billion. In cash. My friends and I own a bank.

“But let’s speak frankly to each other. I’m not the smartest guy you’ve ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I’m not technical at all—I can’t write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship. And what do I see in our future now?

“I see pitchforks.”

“At the same time that people like you and me are thriving beyond the dreams of any plutocrats in history, the rest of the country—the 99.99 percent—is lagging far behind. The divide between the haves and have-nots is getting worse really, really fast. In 1980, the top 1 percent controlled about 8 percent of U.S. national income. The bottom 50 percent shared about 18 percent. Today the top 1 percent share about 20 percent; the bottom 50 percent, just 12 percent.”

Now, you have to understand, Nick is a leftist in every sense of the word. When my partner Todd Herman and I had a radio show in Seattle, we always wanted Nick to come on and debate us but he would never come on. But for a moment in time in 2014, Nick was dead on the money that eventually people are going to be tired of being taken advantage of and being used by the system. This latest case between hedge funds and the small investors using Robin Hood, demonstrates just how stacked the system is against the little guy. When the little guy feels frustration and believes that he has no way to improve his lot in life because the wealthy elite are crushing him, eventually he and his friends pick up pitchforks.

Here is more from Nick:

“If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. 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.”

The more the Biden Administration and the radical left crush the little guy, the closer and closer we will get to Nick’s vision from seven years ago. Let’s hope someone figures this out and let’s up, before the “little guy” rebels.

Here is the TedTalk that Nick did warning of an impending pitchfork rebellion:

VIDEO AT LINK..........................


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
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“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell, 1984
1 posted on 01/29/2021 11:04:58 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Really clever people can do impossible things.

Really dumb ones just complain about their lot in life.


2 posted on 01/29/2021 11:08:44 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: Red Badger

Truth is more dangerous than pitchforks.


3 posted on 01/29/2021 11:10:26 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Red Badger

No offense

But i find it strange no one here hasnt also come to the conclusion that perhaps this is exactly what they desire to occur?

Its a tremendously orchestrated crisis they are itching to exploit.

More than the crisis they are curently exploiting, ie the theft of the presiential election.

Because crises allow them to do things theyd never be able to do normally.

They are deliberately pushing things to the breaking point.

At some point for our survival we will have to engage, life will be made so impossible just to live.


4 posted on 01/29/2021 11:12:18 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s why The Zuck and other oligarchs believe in walls.
For themselves.


5 posted on 01/29/2021 11:12:31 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: Red Badger

6 posted on 01/29/2021 11:13:08 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Secret Agent Man

Possibly, but I don’t give the Dems that much credit to think that far ahead. They live for the moment.........................


7 posted on 01/29/2021 11:13:40 AM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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To: Red Badger

I am not at all sure that “income inequality” is a core problem. Jeff Bezos is hugely rich — and some other people dream of the day when their minimum wage job will bump up to $15 an hour. I think that’s how markets work. It may not be great, but our society has been dynamic enough that people move up and move down and I don’t see a revolution occurring because of “income inequality”.

But what we really see more and more is a two-tier society in which some people make the rules and are allowed to break all the rules at any time. They are untouchable. The bulk of society is weighed down by so many rules that they can be crushed in a thousand ways anytime some important person decides to crush them.

I think that is completely unsustainable. The Robinhood thing and the Deep State (Hillary/Biden/Soros/Epstein) thing — these have made it clear to just about everyone that “it’s a big club — and you ain’t in it”.


8 posted on 01/29/2021 11:15:11 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I'm sorry the Q thing didn't work out. We were wrong about that.)
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To: Red Badger

““If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. “

If this leftist believes this and believes it is caused by wealth inequity then he already knows the solution — he should give away his billions to the poor.


9 posted on 01/29/2021 11:15:49 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Red Badger

Put ALL income in a big pot and divide it up. What would happen: Would anyone put in a 40 hour week then they can take what someone else has earned? Ok so make 40 hours a requirement.


10 posted on 01/29/2021 11:16:41 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (My issue would be incarceration. Where to put them? Illegals can be deported )
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To: Secret Agent Man

You’re not the only one...

How else to push the “great reset” by destroying trust in the stock market?


11 posted on 01/29/2021 11:16:43 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Red Badger

Start buying stocks from pitchfork producers!


12 posted on 01/29/2021 11:17:19 AM PST by Intar
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To: Red Badger

This may be the real insight into why the Swamp and elites hated Trump so much. Trump highlighted very clearly the extent to which elites/ Swamp rats are taking advantage of the bottom half . . . hold on a second . . . time to bring another mob across the border. . . .


13 posted on 01/29/2021 11:17:51 AM PST by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: Red Badger

Correct.

Jan 6 was nothing.


14 posted on 01/29/2021 11:18:17 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Secret Agent Man

Isn’t one of the goals for Agenda 21 depopulation?

Maybe “The New World Order” has jumped onto the fast track; a dirty little war would help cull the herd.


15 posted on 01/29/2021 11:20:58 AM PST by Bratch
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To: Slyfox

Tyranny and Insurrection are simply different ends of the pitchfork


16 posted on 01/29/2021 11:20:58 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: ClearCase_guy

You are right on the money.


17 posted on 01/29/2021 11:21:49 AM PST by caver
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To: Red Badger

The problem is much deeper than people realize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIU1Dmf6sY

This won’t end well.


18 posted on 01/29/2021 11:21:56 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Red Badger

*** “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell, 1984 ***

Pretty much what I was going to post, only far more eloquent.


19 posted on 01/29/2021 11:22:16 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Red Badger

You dont need all of them steering the boat.

It never is like what you say.


20 posted on 01/29/2021 11:23:19 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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