• clanginator@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When you think about it, at that point at least the rich are spending their money again in order to buy another yacht, actually putting money into the economy.

    It’s like trickle down economics, but we gotta shoot some holes in the water tower to make it trickle down.

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      This is actually an example in The Wealth of Nations; Adam Smith considers whether a hooligan smashing a window is a benefit to society because it creates work for the glazier.

      Smith concluded that no, it isn’t a net benefit because the glazier could have made a new window instead.

      However, given that megayachts are net negative to society, I’m not sure how he’d view this case.

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      When you think about it, at that point at least the rich are spending their money again in order to buy another yacht, actually putting money into the economy.

      People who think the rich just have vaults full of money are so fucking ridiculous.

      Poor people sit on cash. Poor people hide cash in their house. Almost the entirety of any rich person’s wealth is invested, because rich people generally pay smart people to handle their money.

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        “We were very wealthy,” says Errol Musk. “We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe.”

        With one person holding the money in place, another other would slam the door.

        “And then there’d still be all these notes sticking out and we’d sort of pull them out and put them in our pockets.”

        You are willfully ignorant.

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        Poor people live paycheck to paycheck, 1 disaster away from bankruptcy and absolute poverty. What the actual fuck are you taking about??