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If we truly want a more equitable, more prosperous, and more sustainable economy,

if we want high-functioning democracies and civil society, we must have a new economics and here's the good news

If we want a new economics all we have to do is choose to have it.

From the offices of Civic Ventures

from the offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics, with Nick Hanauer.

One American capitalist's desperate attempt to save us from ourselves.

I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures. I'm Stephanie Urban.

I run a lot of our advocacy and campaign work here at Civic Ventures.

So Nick, your most recent speech for Ted is out.

You recorded last month in Edinburgh on the Ted main stage which is super cool what

in honor yeah super fun and at the end of this episode we'll play a clip from

your speech at Ted and tell our listeners where they can watch the whole thing but I

want to take you back and talk about what led up to this moment of you taking the main stage at Ted this year.

So you've done two TEDs before.

Can you talk about those and what you've covered?

Yeah, so I gave my first head talk, I think in 2012, and that was pretty controversial

because I made this argument basically about inequality in 2012 that the true job

creators in a market economy aren't rich people like me but rather are middle class consumers.

Sort of hard to believe but in 2012 talking about inequality was not fashionable.

It made people really angry and crazy and there was a lot of controversy around that

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