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The US certainly spends a lot on elections, and one might debate whether that's too much or not. But what is certain is that campaign money contributes to the
by jnwatson 3y ago
The US certainly spends a lot on elections, and one might debate whether that's too much or not. But what is certain is that campaign money contributes to the GDP. It funds a lot of salaries.
I'd rather that money go to people instead of a faceless cryptofund. I think that's the joke.
- orangecat 3y agoBut what is certain is that campaign money contributes to the GDP. It funds a lot of salaries. This is the broken window fallacy. If you have two groups with diametrically opposed goals, giving them each more money to spend "increases GDP" in a local sense, but the result is that a bunch of people spend a lot of effort for a net result of zero, when it could have gone toward something useful. I'd rather that money go to people instead of a faceless cryptofund. I think that's the joke. Yeah, the crypto piece is just for additional silliness. For a real version of this you'd need, like, a spreadsheet with two columns.