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So something > nothing. But where is the irony? Borrow/confiscate money from non-struggling groups and hand out to struggling groups. Might work in some cases,

So something > nothing. But where is the irony? Borrow/confiscate money from non-struggling groups and hand out to struggling groups. Might work in some cases, but hardly a long term solution. Besides, how is current economical fragility Hayek's fault? Edit: re-read the original comment. Seems like the irony, or rather sarcasm is in Keynes's suggestion to organise note-digging as a form of free enterprise with tenders and competition for digging rights. (Sounds like Bitcoin by the way.) If that is the hidden message, it looks rather pointless.

hx87 10y ago
The irony is that people look only at the first inequality and think that Keynes advocates for make-work, whereas if one looks at the implicit inequality, Keynes is actually advocating for productive stimulus, or failing that, handing out money without wasteful, feel-good conditions such as requiring people to break rocks (or dig for notes).