• mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    The definition of trickle-down economics is incongruent with the image that’s being displayed. If the second image shows that it’s a Piñata being hit (matching the definition of piñata economics) the first image should show trickle down economics as it ‘should’ work, which is that the top glass spills over to the next glass and so on.

    Yes I’m autistic, how did you know?

    • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      15 hours ago

      The first image is how trickle down actually is. None of the money actually “trickles”, but pools at the top, or in this case gets siphoned to their tax shelters.

      The only trickling that happens it the rich practically peeing on the rest of us.

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        14 hours ago

        Yes, I agree that’s how trickle down economics works in real life but I looked at this meme and was like ‘it don’t make sense’.

        If the caption was something like ‘how aspirational capitalists think trickle down economics works’ and showed a picture of the imagined way trickle down economics works and the second image was the one in this meme with the caption ‘how trickle down economics actually works’ it would make more sense.

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          12 hours ago

          Even aspirational capitalists don’t think trickle down economics works the way you’re describing. It’s always supposed to be a grift. This has always been the goal. It’s not that this is how it works in reality, it’s that this is how it was always supposed to work.