Quotes by Nick Hanauer

"The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things."

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"Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power."

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