It's ideology. That would be "giving handouts" to "lazy people," etc. Oddly enough the strongest support base for this ideology is among those who would benefi

It's ideology. That would be "giving handouts" to "lazy people," etc. Oddly enough the strongest support base for this ideology is among those who would benefit from pumping the demand side the most. Many of the wealthier people I've talked to or who I've heard speak on the subject seem to get that we are in a demand-constrained economy. IMHO it emerges from the fact that human beings are genetically programmed for scarcity. When we feel threatened we tend to respond by pushing for others to have less. "I'm poor, so you should be poorer." Our emotional and social brains simply do not compute abundance and definitely do not compute large-scale economics.