As a thought experiment, I would predict that putting $80B more in the hands of the population of people in the bottom 50% of the wealth distribution would cause more and longer lasting economic activity than the same amount injected, for example, into the stock market. Broadly how it&#x27;s working is that too much money is sticking in banks and financial markets, and not enough actually circulating in the hands of people and that&#x27;s causing poor economic growth in real terms.<p>What does that mean for suggested fiscal or monetary policy? I don&#x27;t know. I believe that capitalism makes sense at a lot of levels, but I also think that the over-accumulation of wealth unbalances the whole. The traditional proposed &quot;solutions&quot; to this are ineffective to me. e.g. increasing the minimum wage may do some social good but it&#x27;s so far on the edges of the solving the fundamental problem it&#x27;s laughable. Instituting a tax on wealth seems unworkable from a political level - and on top of that, it seems to be on the other far edge of trying to fix a problem long after the problem has occurred.<p>To me the fundamental problem isn&#x27;t that individuals get wealth, it&#x27;s that our financial system systematically approaches wages to be optimized down as a cost, and that companies are applauded for squeezing labor cost as equally as any other cost. So instead of investing in better training, or capital equipment, or better processes, a viable way to operate is to squeeze your employees as hard as possible. This is a process that&#x27;s causing broad flow towards inequality and single worst misapplication of money flow in the economy, giving rise to the problem in the parent above.  This is also a process that squeezes out the benefits of capitalism to people broadly in society.<p>I don&#x27;t have a pat answer to solve that problem. Sometimes I wonder about a salary tax credit that looks something like an x% credit for the amount of money an employer pays in wages. It would have to be some fairly out-of-the-box proposal that shifts enough wages as a proportion of gross profits that would have an effect without fundamentally breaking down the way that capitalism does lead to benefits.