you really need to find a way to get maximum $$$$ in the hands of those at the top (provided they are running modern companies ..like tesla, facebook, google, apple, amazon, ebay etc).
if you give money to the poor, you dont get any new companies.
but if you make sure the entrepreneurs have plenty of cash, they can build new technologies.
look at musk .
the guy is so creative.
why would you take cash off him and give it to someone at the bottom?
do you think they are going to design a new electric car in the garage of their public housing squat
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think how we treat athletes.
our very best get sent to the institute of sport and get the very best money can buy.
we really spoil them
we dont have the institute of sport go out and have elite physios treating fat kids in public schools, we pay them to make the elite even more awesome.
this is a good investment.
both in sport and in business .
china massively funds its unicorn entrepreneurs.
we should too
(provided they are running modern companies ..like tesla, facebook, google, apple, amazon, ebay etc).
This would get a slot around 150 in the list of dumb things you have posted.