Uber-Wealthy Capitalist Gave a TED Talk -"Rich People Don't Create Jobs"- And TED Refuses to Post It

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17. TED is funded through conference ticket sale revenue, sponsorships, advertisements, and

private donations. The TED IRL conferences run over $7,000.00 a ticket....

The TED IRL conference receives funding from various types of sponsorship opportunities, which can range from in-kind to monetary. TED sponsorships start at $50,000.00 and go up beyond one million dollars (for programs such as TED Special Projects). Current sponsors include Google, GE, AOL,
Goldman Sachs, The Coca-Cola Company, Tiffany & Co., Johnson & Johnson, along with
various others....

Online, advertisements are an important part of revenue, particularly for the TEDTalks...

Information regarding private donations is not made public. However, according to the
Sapling Foundation’s 990 tax form filed in 2009, private donations over $5,000.00 come from 99 individuals or organizations in 2009... Donation sizes listed on the 990 ranged from $5,000.00 to $400,000.00....private companies such as Coca Cola donated $10,000.00, along with a few dozen individuals. Non-profit organizations that contributed to The Sapling Foundation include the Confra Institute and the Harrish Foundation... The largest donation was provided by the Fetzer Institute, an organization seeking “to build a more peaceful and harmonious global community” at $400,000.00, followed by individuals Mike and Jackie Bezos at $334,080.00....

http://www.american.edu/soc/communication/upload/Rosemari-Ochoa.pdf

Bezos = Amazon.com. He's also on TED's "Brain Trust," as are Bill Gates, Larry Page (Google), Sergei Brin (Google), Scott Cook (Intuit).

Looking over the roster it looks like a gathering of the tech/genetics/finance/intelligence community, with a couple of faces for show (Meg Ryan).

TED Talks for the most part represent a limited POV, and it's the view of tech-loving rich people who think they should be in charge of the world.

One can easily understand why the idea that "rich people don't create jobs" would be so very very "controversial" to such people, and kudos on the rich person who said it to this audience.

What a joke. Transhumanism not controversial to these assholes but that rich people might not be "job creators" -- ooooh, sacrilege.

On edit: the more I look into hanauer's background, the more i wonder if this story isn't sort of phony and run just to pique interest in hanauer's talk. He seems to be closely associated with the Gates in their attack on public education and their push for an income tax in washington state.