TED and inequality: The real story

Re:TED and inequality: The real story by perspectiveless on Thursday May 17, 2012 @04:35PM (#3988951)

Ted is a circle jerk for rich people of course they don't want to hear about inequality.

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Re:TED and inequality: The real story by CamperBob2 on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:04PM (#3989095)

Especially when the person lecturing them about inequality uses blatant, easily-debunked lies to do it. ("When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest...")

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Re:TED and inequality: The real story by daenz on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:02PM (#3989082)

This was an issue on Reddit and elsewhere. Ticket prices to a TED talk are at least $6k apparently http://www.ted.com/conversations/1950/ted_s_6000_price_tag_l...

One ticket went for $33k http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2008/01/a...

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Re:TED and inequality: The real story by waterlesscloud on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:04PM (#3989093)

How much is a ticket to their youtube channel?

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Re:TED and inequality: The real story by grecy on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:51PM (#3989306)

(free, of course)

But the whole point is they only put the talks they want you to hear on YouTube. Rich people hearing about income inequality is nothing new, but it's downright scary when they limit the non-rich hearing about it.

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Re:TED and inequality: The real story by daenz on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:24PM (#3989184)

I see your point, but I think the point of the complaint was that that kind of networking is only available to the wealthy.

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