Two businessmen were walking down the street, when one of them spots a pile of dog shit on the ground.

Posted by SlipperySalmon3@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 27 comments

Being bored, he tells the other guy, "Hey, if you eat that, I'll give you $10k right now."

Naturally, he plugs his nose and eats it. As promised, the first one pulls $10k out of his wallet and hands it over. It's a big wallet, I guess.

A mile later, they spot another pile. This time, the second businessman tells the first, "$10k to eat that right now!"

Of course, the first one takes the deal. Easy money, right?

They continue walking, and after a moment, the first one says, "You know, it occurs to me we both just ate dog shit, and we're not a penny richer."

After a moment, the second one replies, "Yes, but we increased the GDP by $20k."

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sc2summerloud@reddit

its economists stranded on a lonely island, your version is worse.

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happymancry@reddit

While it’s a good joke, this is actually how money “circulates” - by spending and trading. Billionaires who hoard their wealth take it out of circulation, which doesn’t help any one.

Anyway, tax the rich. Stay well, fellow jokesters.

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notneps@reddit

In this situation the "benefit" presumably being that the two men both got their rocks off from the live scat show.

Money is made up, but having a lot of made up numbers hoarded means you get to have your unnatural kinks satisfied at a whim.

So in other words, yes.

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madhur20@reddit

how do billionaires hoard their wealth?

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In general, one only needs a certain amount of money to live. This is the consumption based part of the economy, which is where a large part of our taxes come from (e.g. sales taxes). The other part is income taxes. If you are very rich, you end up capping both of these tax streams since you only need a certain amount of money to live. The rest of the money goes into investments, which one can hold on to forever and let it grow without paying taxes. Even better, in some cases they can take a loan against the investment assets and deduct the cost of the loan.

Economists will argue that the investments comeback to the economy in the form of business investments and consumption. For example, startup investment in OpenAI has led to lots of consumption taxes in the form of salaries, hardware purchases, etc.

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InspectorMendel@reddit

They each have a big hoard of wealth, that’s how they got their name

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happymancry@reddit

I’d refer you to “The Desolation of Smaug” movie as a good documentary on the subject.

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Attygalle@reddit

If they both value seeing the other eat dog shit so much, they got out of this what they wanted.

The joke “originally”, whatever that means in joke terms, is about economists btw.

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Naturally, he plugs his nose and eats it.

Naturally.

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SlipperySalmon3@reddit (OP)

Finally getting a useful job by cleaning up the streets

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NoOnesSaint@reddit

Wait until they find out they got taxed 4 times in the deal.