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> Every dollar you spend on your bunker is a dollar you don't spend helping the world keep out of the sort of trouble that would make your bunker necessary. Bu
by djrogers 10y ago
> Every dollar you spend on your bunker is a dollar you don't spend helping the world keep out of the sort of trouble that would make your bunker necessary.
But it's also a dollar that's been spent - paying for school supplies for the daughter of the welder employed by the manufacturer, the medicine the truck driver's mom needs, and a few drinks at the bar for the retired vet who ran the backhoe for the bunker.
The economy isn't a closed system, so anything that gets the super rich to spend their money rather than stockpile it will benefit the economy as a whole.
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- rstupek 10y agoTotally this, but also it's a misnomer that money can be "stockpiled" and not benefiting the economy.
- Apocryphon 10y agoThis sounds like a variation of the broken window fallacy