If there are 10 cookies and 12 people who want to buy them the price goes up and some people go without. Giving 2 people enough money to buy the cheapest cookie

If there are 10 cookies and 12 people who want to buy them the price goes up and some people go without. Giving 2 people enough money to buy the cheapest cookie allows them to buy it, but at the expense of someone else being able to buy it who didn’t have that free money. You can try to give everyone money, but that just puts us back where we started and now the baker can further raise prices to extract that free money from everyone. When there isn’t enough to go around, the solution is to make more cookies.