Excuse me if the question in the title is a too big simplification, but I suppose the pattern exists.

  • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    No it is not supply side economics. If everyone equally got a 10% bump in wealth that would be a rising tide and would not be trickle down.

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        This article makes no sense, the entire thing does that the phrase was used to garner support for broad reaching support and economic policy that helps a large swath of people, but then at the bottom they stick in a subdivision of trickle down which is effectively the opposite of that (helping a small subsection would magically help everyone else)

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      That’s not how it works in practice. In practice, crapitalists get tax breaks, everyone else gets less infrastructure, services, etc and pays more for the wealthy to enjoy a luxury liner while trying to run us over on whatever scraps we have.