[Reeses]

With your help I extract 10 bucks from your buddy. So now you have 20

Big Pig takes a 50% cut of all money that passes through their hooves. That's why this keeps coming up. That money is mostly wasted, and the nation becomes less wealthy. Building wealth is hard work. Destroying it and living off the cut is easy and fun.

[marron]

Big Pig takes a 50% cut of all money that passes through their hooves.

Good point. Good trick. So he keeps the poor guy mad at the rich guy while he's got his hand in both their pockets.