11
                     Cicero
                
                
                    2
                     Epicurus
                
                
                    2
                     Hegel
                
                
                    1
                     Hesiod
                
                
                    1
                     Homer
                
                
                    4
                     Juvenal
                
                
                    4
                     Plato 
                
                
                    1
                     Ayn Rand
                
                
                    1
                      Seneca
                
                
                    10
                     Seneca
                
                
                    10
                     Adam Smith
                
                
                    5
                     Socrates
                
                
                    2
                     Tacitus
                
                
                    3
                     Lao Tzu
                
                
                    1
                     Sun Tzu
                
                
                    4
                     Virgil
                
                
                    3
                     Voltaire
                
                Kurt Vonnegut
Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.+