{"id":65716,"date":"2026-06-08T21:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65716"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:37:02","slug":"death-of-the-middle-class-billionaire-vs-entrepreneur-debate-daniel-priestley-v-nick-hanauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65716","title":{"rendered":"Death of the Middle Class: Billionaire vs Entrepreneur DEBATE &#8211; Daniel Priestley v Nick Hanauer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nick_and_Dan_Interviewed.jpg\" alt=\"Nick and Dan Interviewed\" width=\"1312\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nick_and_Dan_Interviewed.jpg 1312w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nick_and_Dan_Interviewed-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nick_and_Dan_Interviewed-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nick_and_Dan_Interviewed-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>\u00a0Why is the economy collapsing? Nick Hanauer and Daniel Priestley debate the wealth divide, why wages should be double what they are, what AI is doing to your job, and whether capitalism can still fix itself!<\/p>\n<p>Nick Hanauer is a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, the first non-family investor in Amazon, and host of the Pitchfork Economics podcast. Daniel Priestley is an award-winning entrepreneur, business coach and best-selling author of 7 books, including \u2019Lifestyle Business Playbook\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uLBsHXNEwAU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uLBsHXNEwAU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Why is the economy collapsing? Nick Hanauer and Daniel Priestley debate the wealth divide, why wages should be double what they are, what AI is doing to your job, and whether capitalism can still fix itself! Nick Hanauer is a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, the first non-family investor in Amazon, and host of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Death of the Middle Class: Billionaire vs Entrepreneur DEBATE &#8211; Daniel Priestley v Nick Hanauer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65718,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65716\/revisions\/65718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}