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You spend less, proportionally, of your income the richer you are. Economic activity scales inversely with wealth.

Poor people spend close to 100% of their income on consumption, middle class people a little less, and up into the billionaires we're looking at less than 1%.

They "move money" in other ways, but I think the key here is that those other ways are just necessarily less economically stimulating.






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