33550336@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 16 hours agoIs it true that progressives are more collectivist rather than individualist?message-squaremessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up148arrow-down1message-squareIs it true that progressives are more collectivist rather than individualist?33550336@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 16 hours agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-text
Excuse me if the question in the title is a too big simplification, but I suppose the pattern exists.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up20·12 hours agoNo, it’s more that making rich people richer isn’t a rising tide
minus-squareNABDad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·11 hours agoExactly. Trickle-down economics doesn’t work, and everyone who isn’t an idiot knows it whether they say it works or not. Trickle-up economics would work, because if money gets into the hands of the people at the very bottom, they buy the things they need to live.
minus-squarepohart@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 hours agoThat’s the tide, a rising tide is the people getting money.
No, it’s more that making rich people richer isn’t a rising tide
Exactly.
Trickle-down economics doesn’t work, and everyone who isn’t an idiot knows it whether they say it works or not.
Trickle-up economics would work, because if money gets into the hands of the people at the very bottom, they buy the things they need to live.
That’s the tide, a rising tide is the people getting money.
Fair.