Automation eliminates the need to even pay workers, redirecting wages to shareholders and thereby speeding up the wealth extraction mechanism.

#automation
#profit
#wages
#extraction
#inequality
#money
#MoneyCycle

On every single cycle, shareholders collect a portion of the money that changes hands. Eventually, workers/consumers are drained of all resources, and shareholders possess all wealth and power. Shareholders are transformed into oligarchs/aristocracy due to this power and wealth imbalance, enabling them to establish a neofeudalist society.

We have a term in computer science for when a resource escapes from a process and cannot be recovered for reuse. We call this a resource leak.

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#MoneyCycle
#shares
#shareholders
#capital
#capitalism
#profit
#oligarchy
#aristocracy
#feudalism
#neofeudalism
#inequality
#GINI
#ResourceLeak

Money moves in a cycle: Consumers pay a company for its products and services. The company pays its workers for creating those products and services. Workers and consumers are actually the same people, closing the loop.

#Money
#Economy
#workers
#consumers
#MoneyCycle

@rbreich
It is actually a good demonstration of #TrickleDown – if we remember that the popular concept is completely upside-down!
The #MoneyCycle is very similar to the #WaterCycle: Rain on the highlands feeds millions of tiny streams (low incomes) that *Trickle Down* & feed the crops, populations, towns & cities & the #economy generally, while excess water fills rivers & finally flows into the oceans (the 0.01%).
Rain on the oceans (Top-rate #TaxCuts, bailouts,+++) feeds none of the above.
@rbreich
#TrickleDown is actually perfectly correct but the trick is that it has been turned upside-down!!
The #MoneyCycle works like the #WaterCycle:
Evaporation = Tax
Condensation = National debt reduction
Rain = Govt expenditure (onto highlands & tiny streams, waters/funds 100% of the economy; onto the oceans funds nothing!)
Trickle-Down: from the millions of LOWEST income streams to the 0.01% oceans of wealth, fuelling the entire economy on the way!
@Miriamm
#TrickleDown economics DOES work!
The difference is that the popular illustration is always UPSIDE-DOWN!
The #MoneyCycle maps to the #WaterCycle:
Rain = govt investment in infrastructure & welfare (on the mountains, into millions of tiny streams) which #TrickleDown into the crops/economy. Some goes back (evaporates) back in tax; most flows into rivers (large accounts) then oceans (the 0.001%).
Note that rain on oceans (corp bailouts, tax reductions for the wealthy) grows no crops.