• BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world
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    The funny part is it would be more profitable than what’s happening now as the ultra wealthy have convinced a majority of voters to keep wages low, keep taxes low for the wealthy, higher for the non wealthy, turn the US into a purely service and gig economy, and so now the economic system is slowing and grinding to a halt as fewer and fewer people can participate in all sectors, from necessities to leisure spending.

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      Exactly, if an economy is an engine then money is the oil; if it pools (by a few people hoarding it) then there’s less flowing through to lubricate the engine turnover and it ceases up.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      there are enough rich people to keep it going for generations.

      but it’s true that wealth inequality generates slower economic growth than wealth equality does.