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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplIApparently this talk was not sent out be TED in the usual way It attacks the notion of the rich as Job Creators, which is relevant to this thread, too, I believe TED itself says that they did not choose this talk because it is partisan. The speaker says that the idea that the rich are job creators is central to the american republican party and that the democratic party do not challenge it enough. Since both of those statements seem to be true it is a little strange to criticise them as partisan. The speaker does not necessarily make out that case in the body of the talk: he does not address it much at all, beyond the first few seconds. Nevertheless if a statement is true it should not be a fault to make it, even if it does suggest that one party rather than another had got things wrong. They can't both be right (well actually to the extent that they share assumptions they can: and they can both be wrong). The second strand of their decision was that the talk is not very good: you may agree or disagree but they have tied that conclusion so closely to the first that it is moot
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