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The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.20, Zed Books
The trickle-down theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.