[johnnyanmac]

Stock buyback is "spending" that does not in fact increase productivity nor stimulate the larger economy. But it makes them richer. Unrealized stocks that's hoarded isn't doing much of anything in the grand scheme of things.

Billionaires have dozens of other things like the above that makes thos an issue

[boxed]

Ok, but after that buyback makes some person richer, what happens then? They can't put that money into a bank account and hoard it because then inflation will eat it slowly. They have to reinvest it into the stock market or something for it to grow.