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Marginal propensity dictates your odds of spending more

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If you hand a broke person fifty bucks, they spend it instantly; if you hand it to a billionaire, it vanishes into a vault. The marginal propensity to consume measures the exact likelihood that an individual will immediately spend any extra income they receive. It proves that distributing cash to the lower classes fuels an economy much faster than hoarding at the top.

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