At least the yacht sales man would get the billions and use it to buy a house, so the home owner would get the billions and use it buy a car, so the car sales man would get billions and use it buy cocaine, so the drug dealer would get billions and use it buy food.
Billionaires buying yachts would actually feed the poor. But they don’t. They just hoard it in their dragon lairs for no good reason.
Yes that’s it. Trickle down doesn’t work because they don’t buy enough yachts.
The proof is: If they actually bought yachts for all their money, they wouldn’t be billionaires anymore.
Billionaires wouldn’t exist if trickle down worked.
If they spent every available dollar they had on yachts, then trickle-down economics would work. But, obviously they don’t.
On the other hand, if you hand a poor person $1000, it’s going to be spent almost immediately. Debts will be paid off, essential repairs will be done, groceries will be purchased, family members in need will be helped. That money won’t “trickle down” because there’s no “down” from there, but it will quickly spread across the economy.
There is some value in giving a rich person, or a rich company money. Poor people aren’t able to make investments in the future because they have so many pressing immediate needs. A person or company might put some money towards something that won’t pay off for years or maybe decades. So, there’s some value in that. With too much money, investments are no longer smart because it doesn’t matter anymore.
I’m pretty sure if they actually bought that many yachts, you’d instead complain that they’re polluting the environment with all the yacht-buying and also they’d waste a lot of human labor on products which aren’t really essential to society at all.
But yeah, your view makes sense from an economics point of view. The rich typically don’t spend their wealth, but hoard it instead, which doesn’t cause workplaces and therefore workers don’t find jobs.
I fucking wish they’d spend the money on yachts.
At least the yacht sales man would get the billions and use it to buy a house, so the home owner would get the billions and use it buy a car, so the car sales man would get billions and use it buy cocaine, so the drug dealer would get billions and use it buy food.
Billionaires buying yachts would actually feed the poor. But they don’t. They just hoard it in their dragon lairs for no good reason.
This sounds a lot like “trickle down economics”
And we all know that’s worked great in the past.
Yes that’s it. Trickle down doesn’t work because they don’t buy enough yachts.
The proof is: If they actually bought yachts for all their money, they wouldn’t be billionaires anymore. Billionaires wouldn’t exist if trickle down worked.
If they spent every available dollar they had on yachts, then trickle-down economics would work. But, obviously they don’t.
On the other hand, if you hand a poor person $1000, it’s going to be spent almost immediately. Debts will be paid off, essential repairs will be done, groceries will be purchased, family members in need will be helped. That money won’t “trickle down” because there’s no “down” from there, but it will quickly spread across the economy.
There is some value in giving a rich person, or a rich company money. Poor people aren’t able to make investments in the future because they have so many pressing immediate needs. A person or company might put some money towards something that won’t pay off for years or maybe decades. So, there’s some value in that. With too much money, investments are no longer smart because it doesn’t matter anymore.
I’m pretty sure if they actually bought that many yachts, you’d instead complain that they’re polluting the environment with all the yacht-buying and also they’d waste a lot of human labor on products which aren’t really essential to society at all.
But yeah, your view makes sense from an economics point of view. The rich typically don’t spend their wealth, but hoard it instead, which doesn’t cause workplaces and therefore workers don’t find jobs.