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Bostonian
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Trickle-down economics were always bullshit
People like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Taylor Swift became billionaires by creating new products that people benefit from -- increasing consumer surplus. Discouraging such people would make us worse off.
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How's the bridge's structure?
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I don't understand your comment.
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https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/I_have_a_bridge_to_sell_you
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They were creating those products before they became billionaires, and very likely without the expectation that they would become billionaires.
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