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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by gonzo41 on Sunday March 11, 2018 @12:27AM (#16561819)
Keynesian Economics kept Australia out of recession in 08. They literally gave everyone 800 bucks. It was awesome, went out a bit more, bought lots of takeout and a few bits for around the house. And the economy kept moving.

Now if only i could figure out a way to get more people to live in my SIM tower!

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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by roel_v on Sunday March 11, 2018 @09:02AM (#16562810)
Yeah, I'm sure that mining boom had nothing to do with it...
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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by UncleEntity on Sunday March 11, 2018 @02:58PM (#16564250)
Why stop at 800?

Give everyone a million bucks and you'd have a booming economy.

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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by snarfybarfy on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:44AM (#16637893)
That's a bit of a lame argument, along the same lines as the 'trickle down' effect.

It probably depends on whether your economy is limited by consumer demand or by insufficient investments. For most developed nations it is clearly limited by consumer demand. Giving rich people more money aka 'trickle down' won't get the rich people to invest, because there is no demand (normal people already spend more than 100% of their income)

In this situation giving away money helicopter style makes sense.

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