John,
If you had a dividend approaching a middle class level of income, and a discount that actually resulted in substantial price deflation…..how much more profit would be available to business, how much less necessary borrowing by business and how much less borrowing by individuals in order to have a satisfactory middle class lifestyle would result? If you integrated price deflation into profit making systems it would reverse the entire entropic cost inflationary vector of the economy. Equilibrium of numbers is just another orthodoxy to get past.