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The wealth was never meant to trickle down. That was just a line to keep the proles subservient and waiting.
- EhForumUser ( @EhForumUser@lemmy.ca ) 15•1 year ago
That was just a line to keep the proles subservient and waiting.
Huh? The trickle down line comes from comedian Will Rogers who was making a joke about how President Hoover, who was an engineer, was accustomed to water trickling down, but that he didn’t realize money trickles up.
It was a line to serve the exact opposite – to tell the ‘proles’ that the economic plan was fundamentally flawed.
yeah, but it was repurposed for that. “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” also has its origins in a saying referring to something that is impossible, but was later repurposed into having the opposite connotation for most people.
Also when conservatives quote MLK about ‘judging people by the content of their character’, and nothing else.
Thanks. I learned something. I grew up hearing it discussed seriously in the 1980s, by which time I’m not sure everyone remembered the critical origin you identify. As I remember it, during the Reagan/Thatcher years many people treated the matter of whether and how the wealth would trickle down as a real live question.
Yup. Reagan and Thatcher just did what their rich friends wanted them to do, and fucked us and the earth for a long time.
Macron is doing that to France right now. It’s not gonna be pretty.
The only thing trickling down is piss. People still drink it though.
In other news, water is wet. Heat… hot!
The only news here is that it’s in the news.
Reagan was the one who stabbed the American Dream to death and they worship him for it.
Never forget, “politician” is a sales job with an optional secondary management component.
We should take it from them now
BBQs for everyone!
At least now there is a study that corroborates what we’ve been saying for decades. So, we’ve got that going for us. Right?
Rich people: Give us all the money and we’ll let you have a little.
Liberal voters: Fuck off!
Conservative voters: Ok!
Liberal voters: We told you so.
Conservative voters: Any day now…
well lets try another 50 just to be sure
What really???1??!
Good to have hard numbers, I guess.
No way!