Barks, Scrooge and economy (WDC 144)

[dveijmeren@kabelfoon.nl]

There's a Barks 1950s ten-pager about Scrooge spending money to get rid
of it (WDC 144), a plan that fails because Scrooge unconsciously spends
it to his own factories and businesses, so that he gets almost the same
big surplus of money at the end.

Would this model work that way in real life, or did Barks use a huge
artistic liberty to tell the story? If one would spend money at his/her
own business, then a lot of money would be spend in the costs of the
production, wouldn't it? Then how can Scrooge get almost the same money
at the end?

Can someone explain this?

--- Daniël