The Economy Isn't a Magic Horn of Plenty

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]This notion though, that you know, you can just sort of send checks out to everybody and and things will be fine is not true, obviously. Uh the there's some people have this absurd like uh view that the economy is like some magic horn of plenty.

[00:00:15]Like it just makes stuff.

[00:00:18]Stuff, you know, whatever it just there's a magic horn of plenty and the goods and services, they just come from this magic horn of plenty.

[00:00:25]And then if um like if somebody has more stuff than somebody else is cuz they took more from this magic horn of plenty. Now let me uh just break it to you the fools out there.

[00:00:36]If you don't make stuff, there's no stuff.

[00:00:42]Yeah. So, if you don't make the food, if you don't process the food, you don't transport the food, and what the the whether, you know, medical treatment, you're getting getting teeth fixed, there's there's no stuff.

[00:01:02]I would become detached from reality.

[00:01:06]You you can't just legislate money and and solve these things. If you don't make stuff, there is no stuff.

[00:01:15]Obviously.