There are plenty of other examples I could give . He ' s just the most famous , but I didn ' t know that about him . Point is , you can smoke a fucking LOT of weed and chances are , unless you go wandering in front of cars or off of bridges or something , you ' ll be fine . Maybe sick , but you generally won ' t get anything near as bad as liver cancerfailure or alcohol poisoning <| sep |> The principle behind it is that when rich people get more money , they go out and spend it more on luxury goods like boats , houses , expensive cars , etc . Also , it implies that they will invest more of this capital into starting new business ventures or improving others . This then creates business opportunities for other people to cater to those luxury needs . ship designers , architects , house builders , which then goes down to the actual builders , line workers , etc . Or it creates other opportunities into expanding businesses . The problem is that it completely ignores the diminishing returns involved with owning your 50 th car , or 7 th house , or more than one yacht . It also ignores the fact the majority of consumption of goods and services occurs in the middle class . It also ignores that the market is very oversaturated with core goods , so unless you can come up with something superniche and superpopular , there ' s little reason to try to explode the size of a company unless you can make a move towards monopolization . So what happens is that it just becomes a giant method of keeping score . The simple reality is that many people in the so called . 1 % make money so fast they literally cannot spend it fast enough to ever redistribute it into the economy without just giving it away . I mean we ' re talking they ' d have to go to a car dealership and buy the whole inventory just to make the 20 hours of filling out the paperwork to buy the entire inventory worth it .