They could not in fact send $18 dollars in cash to everyone on the planet. Ending world hunger and malaria, its not as simple as throwing money at it.
When people use examples like that are not meant as a panacea but as a simple comparator for people to grasp the scale of the situation. It’s like saying ‘if you took all your veins out and laid them end to end, they would extend to Mars’, isn’t posited as a suggestion.
Anyone who thinks that issues we face as a species can be resolved either by throwing money at it or by throwing all the billionaires into a human sized blender and live streaming it, probably think that national and global economies are exactly like household budgets and it’s just a case of ‘balancing the books’
When people use examples like that are not meant as a panacea but as a simple comparator for people to grasp the scale of the situation. It’s like saying ‘if you took all your veins out and laid them end to end, they would extend to Mars’, isn’t posited as a suggestion.
Anyone who thinks that issues we face as a species can be resolved either by throwing money at it or by throwing all the billionaires into a human sized blender and live streaming it, probably think that national and global economies are exactly like household budgets and it’s just a case of ‘balancing the books’