The "Real World" parents tried to warn us about

Just playing devil's advocate but consider this:

If you flood the economy with new money, you'd cause hyperinflation and the money would be next to worthless. Now imagine if all multibillionaires divided up all their money and distributed it evenly among all citizens, it would have the exact same effect. The sudden demand would outstrip the supply and prices would explode to the same effect, devaluing the money.

Billionaires literally cannot spend all of their money on material goods if they tried. They would have to try very hard to spend as much money as they could every day for years to possibly have the same effect. The only use for that amount of money is to spend it on other intangible things like stocks. Therefore the money doesn't really exist in the material world and the value is what they say it is.

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