I'm gonna keep ranting about the New Deal
80 years later the historical record is clear that pumping the working class with money works really well and has basically no downsides
the crazy thing is it doesn't have to be an emergency measure you can just fund a healthy working class, it's just policy.
The main reason they portray these policies as emergency measures is so they don't have to, because they don't want to. They want you as poor as you'll tolerate without burning their estates