Nick Hanauer Professions : Venture capitalist Born : 1959 Browse All Authors Top 44 quotes by Nick Hanauer 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. Nick Hanauer me you police society Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another. Nick Hanauer old economics real people The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around. Nick Hanauer rich class people way When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer. Nick Hanauer name job you rich Similar Authors Bill Gurley venture-capitalist Douglas Leone venture-capitalist David Sze venture-capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya venture-capitalist Greg McAdoo venture-capitalist Fred Wilson venture-capitalist All Authors