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People say it’s bad for rich people to hoard their wealth and not buy things, but then they talk about times where rich people make someone else pay for things. This is an important distinction, because it would be good for rich people to acquire fewer things. If less of the economy is devoted to building yachts, that frees up more labor for things that poorer people might use.

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A memory from around a decade ago: my black coworker told me that the cops in his town got a tank and put a video of it on their website, set to “Die Motherfucker Die.” (Looking it up, I think he meant an MRAP.) He said every black person in town had each other’s name and phone number in case the worst happened. He was kinda joking, but not really.