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A Boring Dystopia
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Trickle down was originally called the Horse and Sparrow theory, because the idea was that if you feed the horse more oats, they'll be more grain for the sparrows to pick out of its shit.
Almost as bad as the worst interpretation of "trickle down economics" I can think of.
Though it's interesting to note that the whole concept does not get better however you try to describe it.
It's always been a tounge-in-cheek or derogatory description, like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, meant to cut through distracting rhetoric: Either make economic policy for the many, or the few will instead horde all they can and pee and poop on the many.