He’s a typical Rat, comes from the “Scrooge McDuck School of Economics” - rich people have secret money vaults in their basement where the go down into and roll around in their money!
The fact that money is dynamic - being invested therefore doing good - jobs! A concept completely lost on him!
Money in a “stash” is static dead - in a “stash” buried like pirate gold!
He’s Malthusian.
Trump says “Don’t make the pie slices thinner; make the pie bigger!”