The "trickle-down" theory of economics imagines the wealthy at the top of a Downfall set, where the counters are at the start of the game. From there, the counters - representing money - tumble through the economy, supplying workers with wages, and goods and services to buy with them. So the more money who can move to the wealthy, the more there is to "trickle down".

But after more than 4 decades of "trickle-down" policy, it's pretty clear that economies don't work that way.

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