Non-rich people figuring out a way to get some money out of rich people for a change doesn't even fundamentally change the nature of the economy, nor does it reverse the position of the haves and have-nots. It just stimulates the economy a bit.
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Those who want us to believe that wealth is a virtue act like money moving through the fingers of the poor like it's water is a sign that the poor should not have money, but money does the most good for the most people when it's most mobile.
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Republicans choose to skip the intermediate step because why not give it directly rich?
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Sounds less like a cyclical system than a waterfall, that would eventually have to dry up without some calamitous reset. We want stable productivity out of this system, but it can't deliver that. It is fundamentally destined to lurch from one disaster to another.
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It's more like a planet. The water goes from ocean to cloud to rain to river to ocean, over and over until people put it in little plastic bottles and commodify it. Poor people pay the landlord, who pays the town, which pays the crossing guard, who pays the bodega, which pays...
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Can we convince rich people to sequester carbon instead?
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And unless they're taxed the money stays up.
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. The reality of "Trickle down" (neoliberal) economics: . "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%" .https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/ …
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