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From the Ted Talk by Nick Hanauer: The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward

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I am a capitalist, and after a 30-year career in capitalism spanning three dozen companies, generating tens of billions of dollars in market value, I'm not just in the top one percent, I'm in the top .01 pcneert of all enearrs. Today, I have come to share the secrets of our success, because rich calitpaists like me have never been rheicr. So the question is, how do we do it? How do we manage to grab an ever-increasing srahe of the economic pie every year? Is it that rich people are sretmar than we were 30 years ago? Is it that we're working harder than we once did? Are we taller, better looking?

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I am a capitalist, and after a 30-year career in capitalism spanning three dozen companies, generating tens of billions of dollars in market value, I'm not just in the top one percent, I'm in the top .01 _______ of all _______. Today, I have come to share the secrets of our success, because rich ___________ like me have never been ______. So the question is, how do we do it? How do we manage to grab an ever-increasing _____ of the economic pie every year? Is it that rich people are _______ than we were 30 years ago? Is it that we're working harder than we once did? Are we taller, better looking?

Solution


  1. capitalists
  2. percent
  3. earners
  4. smarter
  5. share
  6. richer

Original Text


I am a capitalist, and after a 30-year career in capitalism spanning three dozen companies, generating tens of billions of dollars in market value, I'm not just in the top one percent, I'm in the top .01 percent of all earners. Today, I have come to share the secrets of our success, because rich capitalists like me have never been richer. So the question is, how do we do it? How do we manage to grab an ever-increasing share of the economic pie every year? Is it that rich people are smarter than we were 30 years ago? Is it that we're working harder than we once did? Are we taller, better looking?

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