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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpecial Report : The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
You probably dont 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 industriesfrom itsy-bitsy ones like the night club I started in my 20s to giant ones like Amazon.com, for which I was the first nonfamily 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. I tell you all this to demonstrate that in many ways Im no different from you. Like you, I have a broad perspective on business and capitalism. And also like you, I have been rewarded obscenely for my success, with a life that the other 99.99 percent of Americans cant even imagine. Multiple homes, my own plane, etc., etc.
Read more:http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#ixzz35r2xaXD3
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)This is a must read.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Several good ideas for framing this argument.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)This?
~original
Or the pitchforks?
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth