Indeed, I immediately thought “what’s the difference between the government giving you $50 that you can only spend on cables, and it just giving you cables?”.
There isn’t one. The reason I phrased it that way was to help keep the link between the various steps in the thought experiment as clear as possible.
There isn’t one. The reason I phrased it that way was to help keep the link between the various steps in the thought experiment as clear as possible.