PaintMyHouse
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It represents spending that doesn't help us. They are welcome to spend but you don't want people buying only one boat, even a very expensive one, when what your economy depends upon is selling what goes on the boat. Life jackets, ropes, lines, maps, horns, fish-finders, fishing poles, water skis, floats, beer, wine, towels, you name it, all of which you sell much more of to ten smaller boats, or better yet 100 even smaller boats. 100 boats is 100 trailers, a 100 trucks, and all the rest, all of which has to be made by people who need the work. When you all buy, everyone works. When only the rich buy, the economy and we starve.I had this won before I posted it. How many people does it take to make one necklace versus 100, especially when they can be made in essentially the same time? Why does the grocery store create lots of jobs and the jewelry store only a very few? You don't need the rich buying things to have a good economy, you need the poor.Yes, it does matter. very much, and what she buys doesn't really help anyone. You don't want a princess to buy a $200,000 necklace, you want 100 men to buy $2,000 necklaces for their wives. That creates jobs for other men, who now have the money to go and buy other things, creating jobs for other men.Irrelevant. She puts more into the economy in a single weekend than most people do in a year. Do you understand that it simply doesn't matter how much more she has stashed away?
Most of Hilton's money sits in the bank, it doesn't move around buying things, and that us no good at all.
Again, irrelevant. Her buying a $200,000 necklace means she's also buying $2,000 necklaces as well. In addition, that $200,000 purchase means she's supporting more high paying jobs. You're just not going to win this one, or any one for that matter.
That's your problem, your fantasy doesn't square with reality. In truth, you need everyone contributing to the economy, but the wealthy spend a whole heck of a lot more than anyone else does. Hence, I don't begrudge the idle rich their fleet of cars, their mansions, their wait staff, because all that represents a lot of spending.