text: Which increases the velocity of money in the economy, boosts spending, increases profits for businesses large and small, etc.  Basically the only people who lose are plutocrats who can't squeeze extra bucks out of their employees to pump back into scam stock buy back schemes and other sterile speculative financial navel gazing.  But of course the plutocrats are the ones our government works for and so we increasingly become a nation of peasants working for starvation wages while healthy democracies and their citizens flourish.