Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averaging $1.7M

Re:Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averagi... by aianus on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:17PM (#22882523)

> Giving money to the rich does not trickle down to people.

All of my well-paying tech jobs have been funded by VC money from rich people and/or IPO money from rich people. Same goes (indirectly and partially) for all the people who have been selling me goods and services over those same years.

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Re:Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averagi... by einpoklum on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:39PM (#22883405)

Yeah, paying a few programmers high salaries doesn't quite count as trickling down. Let's say it's extremely-limited trickle down.

> Same goes ... for all the people who have been selling me goods and services over those same years.

No, it doesn't. Unless you only buy services from VC-financed startups?

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Re:Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averagi... by aianus on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @06:53PM (#22884104)

> No, it doesn't. Unless you only buy services from VC-financed startups?

I buy things using my salary which trickled down from the VCs and shareholders.

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