Nick Hanauer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Jobs #Unemployment #Wages
The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Law #Ideas #Wages
You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it what way."
-- Nick Hanauer

#Years #People #Pay
Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Simple #Fields #Administration
I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Thinking #Wings #Ideas
I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Country #Thinking #Conservative
If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Real #Care #Social
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Jobs #Creating #Squirrels
If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Jobs #Would Be #Today
But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Unemployment #Minimum Wage #Littles
The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Class #People #Helping
Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Cutting #Thinking #People
The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Feet #Long #Boat

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