The idea of money sitting idle is what Keynesian economic theory and "stimulus" is about, yes, although avoiding the broken window fallacy is a big part of what it's about Like people joking about FDR in the Depression "paying people to dig holes and fill them up again"
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The more bullshit the "bullshit job" is that you create solely for stimulus the more of your stimulus is waste And this is an issue where the Protestant work ethic becomes the enemy of humane and rational policy
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Like if you think it's a waste for me to give money to someone for nothing, giving it to him in return for him doing a job he doesn't want to do and no one else wants him to do (digging and filling holes) *increases* the waste, it means *nobody* is happy
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I think quantitative easing but give the money to the poor would have been a much better plan for giving away unearned money.
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The problem is we're so averse to "just giving away money" that even when everyone knows it's the right thing to do you have to sneak it in You have to make up some kind of job that needs doing or you have to use the monetary system to sneak it into the economy through the banks
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