Give them reform or they’ll give you revolt

Billionaire angel investor Nick Hanauer fears a popular backlash against wealth inequality.

Nick Hanauer was one of the first people to back Amazon and is a billionaire angel investor. He's been involved with more than 30 businesses over the last 20 years and is a "proud and unapologetic capitalist".

However, he's worried about the levels of inequality in America. Because of this he's making waves with his prediction, which appears in the American magazine Politico, that "unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France".

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