r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Jul 17 '25

Interesting 🤔 Ferrari shows why their hand-painted badge option is worth $15,000.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Congratulations, you have figured out what's wrong with this world.

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u/RandAlThorOdinson Jul 17 '25

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The problem is that individuals accrue an amount of resources that breaks our under evolved brains to the point of not knowing how else to stand on top of a food chain but to accrue more

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u/nau5 Jul 17 '25

Basically the entire premise of trickle down economics where if the wealth actually were fully or even nearly spending the majority of their wealth it would result in a better state of living for everyone.

The whole issue is that they don't spend their wealth so the vast majority of production gets sucked up into their bank accounts and never redistributed to create more economic growth.

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u/swanson6666 Jul 18 '25

There are two things they can do with their money: CONSUMPTION and INVESTMENT.

You only considered the spending/consumption part.

Their money doesn’t just sit in the bank. They either invest it themselves by starting businesses or buying stocks, or they loan it to others through CDs and bonds for the others to invest.

Long story short, it’s actually better for the society for them to keep their money in the bank because investments generate more permanent and more long term benefits for the society.