I remember reading something a while back (don't remember where and can't find it) where a study said that if you took all wealth and re-distributed it equally among all people, it was a relatively short time where the former "wealthy" people would be wealthy again and the former "poor" people would be poor again.

Ask the average person that you come across in your daily life what they would do if they suddenly had $10,000,000.00.  I'll bet the answers would range from buying something to taking a vacation.

Look at what so many professional athletes do when they sign a big contract.  You see them driving fancy expensive cars, buying huge homes and wearing the "bling".  There are many that squandered the opportunity that they earned and ended up with basically "nothing".

Giving people a hand out does nothing for them.  Giving people a hand up does.  The "COVID relief stimulus" checks are hand outs.

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