This is a TED talk by
Paul Tudor Jones II, a hedge fund manager who has earned a lot of popularity in the US, although he seldom gives interviews. Still, his arguments naturally resonate very clearly with the audience.
Basically, he is arguing that the obsession for profit has become something so normal that society is not noticing how it is
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And maybe it's just as threatened with extinction a species.
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I think we need to look not to the past for answers, but to evaluate how we got here and why things are the way they are currently. See how the policies of Reagan and Clinton and the Bushes and Obama have impacted things along the way. How outsourced jobs and stagnant wages and student loan debt and tax loopholes have made an impact. Tax reform? That's a simple enough concept for a TED talk, but I think the answer is more complex than that.
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As much as I'd like to eat the rich, they'll just get rich again. We need to stop the cycle of poverty, just not let inequality balloon enough so that all we think about is the 1%.
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