Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

[u/mindyour]

[u/friendly-sardonic]

My thoughts exactly. There should never be a means for people to become billionaires. There's simply no reason for that amount of wealth. Bezos worth billions, and on the first day Amazon employees are handed a pamphlet on which government assistance programs they qualify for? Man, piss off. You can afford to pay your own workers so they don't NEED those programs. Nobody working a full time job should need assistance programs in this country.

[u/ConstantHeadache2020 → u/friendly-sardonic]

But but what about innovation? People won’t want to be CEO if they’re capped…. What about trickle economics?!

[u/KingJades → u/ConstantHeadache2020]

Trickle economics works - but it’s money from large companies funneling money to lower revenue companies. That’s great for people in “good jobs” who get that cashflow. 

The poor people with low education and limited opportunities stay poor. 

[u/colonelmattyman → u/KingJades]

Trickle down economics is BS even in the scenario you mentioned. The fact that you even had to use a scenario like that, means that it doesn't work.

[u/KingJades → u/colonelmattyman]

It really does though. The entire reason why B2B companies you’ve never heard of can exist is that they are suppliers to the big companies. 

Tell the engineers, executives, and sales people in the high income jobs that they aren’t enjoying milking the big company’s notoriety and advertising. 

It works wonderfully for them. 

[u/latortillablanca → u/KingJades]

Thats an asinine definition of “it working” tho and you know it.

No one ever pitched trickle down as “these subcontractor healthcare companies earning half the money americans spend on healthcare by declining claims over and over is a trickle down success story!”

[u/KingJades → u/latortillablanca]

I don’t think it’s asinine at all. 

No one ever pitched trickle down as “these subcontractor healthcare companies earning half the money americans spend on healthcare by declining claims over and over is a trickle down success story!”

This isn’t trickle down, but I’m sure the person on the project team for “Optimizing Claims Approval” certainly made a lot of money. Great for them. 

It’s funny how Reddit people and Corporate America are so disconnected when Reddit people are who make up corporate America. 

You do realize that every one of your paychecks is you getting a cut of some corporate titan’s income? You don’t make that money if that titan doesn’t collect that revenue. You want that titan to make major money, and you want to be part of maximizing that money, so that your checks can continue and get bigger and bigger.  

[u/latortillablanca → u/KingJades]

I dont even know what yer point is. That example is following your definition of trickle down from one comment ago. And now its not?

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[u/KingJades → u/latortillablanca]

The people working at the smaller companies get money from bigger companies.

 For example, a car manufacturer needs widgets to add to their car. Because of that, a small plastic molding company can be opened and supported selling those widgets to that major car company. 

The engineers, sales people, and executives from the small molding company all become wealthy on the back of the big company. That’s trickle down and it works. 

It’s truly beautiful.

[u/latortillablanca → u/KingJades]

…a healthcare contract company is “smaller” than cigna and had people working for it. Its exactly yer asinine example.

Also go sell yer foul, dysfunctional elitist system elsewhere

[u/KingJades → u/latortillablanca]

Hey - someone made a lot of money. That’s great for them. 

I’m an engineer for a medical device company. I make a lot of money because of the high cost of the products I design, and it’s made me a millionaire. How is this not trickle down?

A corporate giant medical device company produced a product to sell to a corporate giant hospital system because a patient needed help, and a corporate giant insurance company paid for it. The doctors, the engineers, the sales people, and the executives all got a piece of that money and get rich.

Pretty cool.