Maths and Figures can be hard on some people... 🙈
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What's a few zero's between not friends?
Of course even if Musk could give everyone a billion dollars, it would completely destroy the economy and start an apocalypse. People wouldn't know what to do. Bread would cost a million dollars. People would begin to fight over resources because their money would become worthless (in belief, not in fact. It's already worthless in fact.)
The endeavor for "equality of outcome" must throw logic out the window in order to even be stated, much less implemented. Throwing math out the window would also be necessary, since math is the language of logic. Mr. Gruel's statement (Chef Gruel? Really???) is self-consistent within that framework, and thus perfectly reasonable in the context of that imagined "perfect future" where we all become equally destitute.
It might take longer than you think to collapse because if it was US only people would start importing everything even bread, but same shit the entire country would collapse as all industry dies. The few who keep working and running businesses will be able to price gouge their way to becoming the 0.1% again and the outcome will be the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer because in the meantime the dollar will have been decimated by inflation and a massive trade deficit boosting every other major economy that rushed to fill the vacuum.
Is there a problem with the system? Absolutely. Can a bunch of idiots coming up with elementary grade solutions fix it? Absolutely not.
Elon Musk putting $1 billion toward anti-corruption would be more beneficial to everyone than giving everyone in the US a fortune (if he could). Just look at the fate of lottery winners. Most people are so indoctrinated into being employees and hoping for a better future, that if they actually got a better future they'd annihilate it to go back to being an employee where they felt safe being paid a pittance every week.
Imagine you had a billion dollars. You go to buy a house. That person also has a billion dollars. Do you really think they care about 300,000 for their house? They are going to want more, because that 300k is now meaningless. It's not a worthwhile trade.
But they probably don't care about that house, because it's a POS compared to what they can afford, so maybe they will sell it for 300k.
But why would you buy it for 300k, when you can buy anything you want. So you go to buy a nice house, one that costs a few million. But 300 million other people want the same house, so they are also all bidding on it. That drives the price up a hundred fold.
This would happen almost instantly, and it would get worse and worse by the hour. Your scenario would not happen. It wouldn't "adjust" because there would be no time to adjust. It would be chaotic and would completely expose the fraud of money.
In the collapse of the Mark in Germany during the Great Depression, they had a couple years to adjust to the devaluing of their currency and they went to cigarettes as an intermediary of exchange. With only a matter of days to adjust, people would panic. Perhaps we would find a way, but its also possible that we wouldn't. It is entirely possible that because people would lose the means to make purchases, they would instead take what they need.