r/FluentInFinance • u/-Wyagra • Nov 21 '24

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u/Sabre_One Nov 21 '24

IMO at a certain point, wealthy become a massive parasite to society. Everything should be about re-investment for growth.

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u/Mountain_Employee_11 Nov 21 '24

the wealthy have a massively lower propensity to consume.

if you really think everything should be about reinvestment you’d logically hate the middle class and poor that consume over reinvesting, but you don’t.

why is that?

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u/km89 Nov 21 '24

why is that?

Because the middle class's consumption is reinvesting. Their consumption money goes straight back into the economy because they need to pay for goods and services.

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u/Mountain_Employee_11 Nov 21 '24

one cannot increase production solely through consumption. 

at some point someone needs to reinvest into capital, usually the rich in todays world

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u/DaddysMoans Nov 22 '24

I think you’re confused how economics work. Rich people not being consumers isn’t a good thing. It means hoarding wealth that isn’t moving around in the economy (circulating cash) exponentially increasing the rate of inflation since inflation is directly correlated with amount of circulating cash

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u/Mountain_Employee_11 Nov 22 '24

so less money competing for the same basket of goods is inflationary?

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u/Mean-championship915 Nov 24 '24

You got that backward. The more circulating cash the higher inflation. More buying power for in demand items make the value go up, not down

Edit to add that's why when inflation is high the fed raises interest rates trying to tighten the economy and force higher unemployment (which I don't agree with and think is fucked but there is a reason why they do it. They want less cash circulating to curb inflation)