One point that you are missing here is that some people have stockpiled wealth and power, and have no intentions of using it to stimulate liquidity in the markets.<p>How much money does a billionaire need to live from day to day? The same as any other normal person. Yes, they are likely to consume more luxury goods, but in the end, it does not cover the fact that the more money you have, the easier it is to get even more.<p>For examples of this you need to look no further than your local bank and see what premium rates they offer for people with high balances. Index funds offer ultra low expense rates for people with a lot of money. With a large proportion of money, it becomes possible for you to manipulate the markets by buying out competition, and becoming a monopoly: which is arguably the equilibrium state for any free-market. The monopoly is the most profitable situation for any business, and this is at odds with society.<p>So the more money you acrue, the higher your money/work rate becomes. This is a perverse incentive for the large corporation owners to not work as hard; and also to lay off workers during recessions. What sane company would be hiring when workers/consumers have less money to spend?<p>And the less work that is put into the economy, the worse off the economy is. This cruel cycle is why the economy was in a deflationary spiral and why "Helicopter" Ben is printing money as fast as he can.<p>This has a communist vibe, but in the end there is simply no argument that it is much better for the country to  utilize the resources and wealth to stimulate the economy as a whole than letting a few people sit on it so they can get richer by doing nothing with it.<p>The poor and middle class can't just create their own wealth because they don't own "the means of production" or the intellectual property horded by megacorps and protected by megacorp lawyers and lobbyists.<p>It is analogous to not letting DeBeers sit on a stockpile of diamonds, except instead of diamonds, it is money, food, gas, homes, etc...