[palmer]

Such total economic illiteracy. If people aren’t getting paid the $10 billion for tele-harassing, the money is getting spent on SOMETHING ELSE!

The sales drive the salaries and sales are not being made. Your economics is the "window stays broken" fallacy.

[Arthur McGowan]

If the sales are not being made, the money for them is being spent on something else, too. If the sales are not being made, it means people didn’t want whatever junk the tele-harassers were selling, anyway.

My real point is that talking about money being “removed” from the economy is basically meaningless, unless somebody burns a pile of money.