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..........................
“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.”
First you show me a society where the poorest people are the most likely to be obese, and where everyone is the most passively entertained and the least used to sustained physical labor in history that ever had an uprising.
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I remember that video of the mother going to an out of control protest and getting her son out of it. Of course the little a-hole did not want to leave and go home but the mother persisted and kicked his young ass all the way home. Needless to say the kid did not get into trouble with the law that day.
That’s the way things SHOULD be. But our blue state’s police forces will not act.
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BLM and ANTIFA rioters and looters need to be bitch slapped all the way home, punctuated with a sound crotch kick.
I was not familiar with the man. I actually think he sounds a lot like Prez Trump before 2016. Less brash but just as entrepreneurial.
Is that your Mama giving you a beating?
A saying goes that when things get quiet, the people are dead or there is something in the works ...
Envy will always be a human trait.
If we are smart enough to make it work for us instead of against us, we win.
The lying media can be taken down. The reddits showed us that.
Dump cable tv
Dump big tech
Dump national name brands
In 2021, the billionaires are not only controlling a lot of capital, but they are using it politically. They are using it to stifle and overwhelm those who will not open doors, do them favors, or attempt to compete.
The US is no longer a capitalist country, we are fascist in the strictest sense. Government and businesses are hand in hand. Governments LOVE the Chinese model, and that is exactly what they have and our “servants” shall have.
You have to wonder how a billionaire, any billionaire, and especially this particular opinionated billionaire, would have the first clue about how poor people live or think.
When you need billions of bodies to “fertilize the soil”, nothing is better than sterilization.
People begin having only 1 or zero children. because the have nots have been literally neutered. The 1 child from a have family, with intelligence and fine genetics. The zero children family, from the “idiot class”.
Throw in a little bit of “killing granny and gramps”, mongoloid and autistic, because they are not productive and take all the income people earn to keep them alive. What you have is a young population, a much smaller population, and the same stratification because “the poor will always be with us.
Even a world with 500 million in it will sort itself into haves and have nots. The haves will need things done, the have nots will need some form of capital. The haves will own all of the land, or control it. The have nots will not be allowed on the Kings(haves) land, without paying for it.
Eventually, people will get tired of this and migrate to unused land and learn to defend it. Shaking off the yoke of the ruling class, the world will begin again along the same lines that turned America into a colony, Africa and South America too.
It will take a lot more than pitchforks, and a stronger kind of human that the Americans of today who are softer than a roll of Charmin.
It will happen though, but not until China literally occupies nearly the entire planet. They have talked about it, and they want it to happen.
If you haven’t read this, do so. Do it with the realization that when Joe Biden said “we have the biggest voter fraud plan in place in the history of the world”. People in Republican power circles said he was just talking out his rectum. He may have not meant to say it, but it was and is true.
Link..... https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/
I won’t be bringing a pitchfork.
I’ll be brining my new Smith&Wesson M&P Sport 2 rifle.
And you should too!
Stimulate the economy.
Seriously, I’ve been pointing this out long before 2014, and as far back as 2008 if you look closely at the numbers. I’m just not a plutocrat.
Power to him. Nick is successful and, like he said, not the brightest.
The poor and wealthy are always at war, according to Aristotle, 350 BC, and the middle class serve as the buffer between the poor and wealthy and prevent war. Thus, if the middle class is huge, then peace in the state is huge.
The poor and middle class do not hate the wealthy. It’s just that we hate the deception and vice sold by media and politicians. No pitchforks are needed. Just more prayers and less covid talk.
I keep thinking that, too.
And I’m sure there are millions of others thinking the same thing.
I think they want this scenario to happen as you say.
They don’t care about the outcome of it, all that will mean is this country and tens of millions of oxygen wasters will be dead.
They will hardly be impacted.
Good luck with that. Hanauer is a major gun grabbing POS who has been a primary funder of every anti 2nd amendment initiative here in Washington, a left coast Nanny Bloomberg if you will. And for those who think he is somewhat like Trump, the main likeness is that he had plenty of money from the family business to fund his own ventures.
Study the French Revolution and all its excesses. Sadly that type of rebellion is brewing.
I concur. Far too many of our society are far too comfortable with the mediocrity available at the touch of their screens. There’s not much incentive to go beyond it in the eyes of those now addicted to what their screens offer.
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