Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.

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This quote humorously criticizes the concept of the trickle-down theory in economics. The theory suggests that by granting benefits and wealth to the wealthy individuals at the top of society, it will eventually trickle down to benefit those at lower socioeconomic levels. However, the quote points out that the wealthy do not willingly let wealth "leak" or be excessively distributed beyond their class. It implies that the trickle-down theory rarely produces the desired outcome of equitable wealth distribution.

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