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> Wouldn't trickle up economics work better?

It depends on what you mean by “work better”.

If your goal is to further enrich the capitalist class while building a quasi-religious doctrine that results in failure of the working classes to see progress resulting in popular pressure to even further enrich the capitalist class, no.

If you have a different goal than the people promoting trickle-down theory, then, sure, maybe.



You could think of UBI as "trickle up". The money starts at the bottom, not at the top.

Mind you, I'm not necessarily sold on UBI. But I think this is an interesting way to look at it.


I watched Andrew Yang's proposal on UBI with great interest. Not necessarily for the UBI section on it, which I wasn't sold on at the time, though I have mostly come around on, but more for how he intended to pay for it.

While cutting social security and welfare by the same amount that the UBI that goes out, there would be an even amount there. I didn't realize how much that would cut down the cost off the top. He went into more specifics and I don't want to butcher it, so I'll link it. As he is no longer trying for any government position, I don't feel like I'm stumping for anyone:

https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/




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