They're investors

democracy was a lie

They invest capital

minarchy

Elon is just one dude though

@Grant, the mOMENT you manipulate the interest rate, you have underminded the market mechanism

US stock market cap is currently 137% of GDP, so yeah there's definitely significant investment in the economy

To be honest US should do the reasonable thing and become vassal to the Nordic Council.

100% free market is bad though too

lol

@Grant, it doesn't mean that 'investors' or 'capitalist' cannot exist in the broken system; but the system as a whole doesn't fuction as capitalism SHOULD

Piss off @Omsomething

Most people in the 1% have a large, large amount of money sitting around and not circulating. Now, I'm not sure how you'd solve that in any sort of reasonable way, but that's for economists to really sit down and think about.

it's actually quite hard to spend a ton of money

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Nah.

do you have sources? @Maw

There are many instances where you're making way more than you could ever actually reasonably spend.

see busters millions

100% free market, regardless of its success, will never be implemented, which is pitfall of republics which I solemnly accept.

@Maw even if their money is stored in a bank, the bank is using it to earn interest. It's never really "just sitting there" unless they've got piles of gold or cash

@Grant, the MAIN debating point or critque of capitalism is that it fails to help the lower classes; but that is because of the rich MANIPULATE the system

Fucking leftist pigs

$7

lol

^

a thousand times this

and surprisingly a lot of it is not in "savings"

Doesn't Bezos have like a hundred billion dollars now do you know how impossible that would be to spend

its in bonds

@M4Gunner BUT MUH INHERIENCE IS AN ILLEGAL FORM OF WEALTH

and things that do circulate

Of course most of that is paper worth but whatever

lol

@M4Gunner, capitalism would work much better without inheritance; if each person had to carry their own weight and could not be 'endowed'

@M4Gunner exactly

lol ur looking to erase most of human history

@M4Gunner that would be the Pareto distribution

Ayn Rand : " Rags to riches to rags again.. in a single generation"

***Laughs from massive investment account that i've built since i was working as a pizza delivery driver and it was literally the easiest thing in the world to save money and i now laugh at the poor because i am not anymore***

that would basically destroy the will for people to work hard to get money for their family

I'm leaving my kids my shiny pokemon