The shear ignorance on this site never ceases to amaze me. No one, ever, in the history of the world, has ever claimed that business owners would give their personal money to anyone when they decided they had too much. "Trickle down" does not mean you are supposed to be given free money for simply existing; it means that when a business owner makes money it "trickles down" to his employees in the form of a paycheck. It trickles down further when those employees spend their money on the things they buy in their lives. The owners of those businesses that receive money that trickles down from the original employee of the original business then pay their employees with that money and it continues to "trickle down" throughout society. As far as that communist cocksucker in the Vatican, he doesn't even understand the basics of The Bible or his own religion, much less the actual world and needs to stop worrying about my finances and start worrying about protecting children.
It's hard to be a business owner without employees. It's hard to sell something when no buyers exist. (granted robots are easing the former).
The philosophy works as a philosophy the exact same way communism, socialism, fascism or a benevolent monarchy works; under extraordinary circumstance with ONE idea. That's not fucking plausible and never has been. THIS is the core problem with not just "trickle down" but every fucking economic system conjured; none cease human greed; they just try and account for it in variable interpretation.
All that being said, you correctly identified what the idea is supposed to be.. and it is a grand idea if it ever actually worked.
None of that matters; it's never worked. That stupid ass justification has existed for 6,000 years and it hasn't fucking worked once over an extended period. For the lifetime of one benevolent ruler? Sure. A dynasty? Eh... 3-4% of them... over 10,000 years? Zero. It's a concept that ends with one conclusion no matter...
The philosophy works as a philosophy the exact same way communism, socialism, fascism or a benevolent monarchy works; under extraordinary circumstance with ONE idea. That's not fucking plausible and never has been. THIS is the core problem with not just "trickle down" but every fucking economic system conjured; none cease human greed; they just try and account for it in variable interpretation.
All that being said, you correctly identified what the idea is supposed to be.. and it is a grand idea if it ever actually worked.
None of that matters; it's never worked. That stupid ass justification has existed for 6,000 years and it hasn't fucking worked once over an extended period. For the lifetime of one benevolent ruler? Sure. A dynasty? Eh... 3-4% of them... over 10,000 years? Zero. It's a concept that ends with one conclusion no matter...