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Re:Ask HN: Do 'economic drainage basins' exist? by basicplus2 on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:33PM (#30729016)
All money flows to the top 1%rs.

Thats why giving money to the poorest people works.

Its called the trickle up effect..

as opposed to the now debunked trickle down effect, which was a invented theory of the 1%rs in an effort to speed up the trickle up effect to their own advantage.

Re:Ask HN: Do 'economic drainage basins' exist? by jka on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:37PM (#30729042)
To continue the (potentially flawed) analogy with water, you could illustrate and chart the results of these flows for both liquid assets and illiquid assets (unrealized stock, for example).