Throwing money at a problem works, when you are actually throwing money at the problem and not at a symptom.

For me currently, my car is a good example.

Problem: I need reliable transportation.

My car is almost old enough to vote here in the US and while it has been a reliable ride now things are starting to fail left and right. I could spend money replacing the parts that break as they break. Or I could simply replace the car.

My solution: Just replace the car. More expensive short term, but it’ll be cheaper and far less headache long term.

It works when money can purchase what is actually needed in detail, and the people on the receiving end are competent.

Im surprised nobody here mentions time. I can do alot of things myself. Like all the things that you can imagine. But my time is limited and I’d rather spend it with my family. So solving something by just spending some money saves me time and several headaches.

Throw enough money and THE expert comes to fix the problem.

Like, my fridge is broken – so I hired the entire engineering research and development department at [company] to solve the issue.

• fixing (thing) that you’ve been half assed fixing for ages

• having the right tools for the job

I feel like Tesla and SpaceX are examples. An idiot with a lot of money at the helm that buys top talent and can afford constant failures until success comes through. Tesla is back on the way down now but was a success story for this for a while.

My renter complained that her dishwasher was broken. Bought her a new dishwasher. Complaints stopped because dishwasher works.

Social services. The programs that show that they save money - like rehabilitation instead of prison, that saves 4 dollars for every dollar spent. We should be funding those, but they’re not run by private prison companies, so there’s no political will to spend the money.

NASA

Sewer line always needed to be cleaned out, just replaced the whole line with a new pitch. Been great since then.

Finding employees.

I’m currently in the midst of throwing money at a problem - car’s brakes corroded after I didn’t drive for three months due to Reasons. I’m desperate to get back behind the wheel - a backlog of car-centric jobs has piled up.

Works at my work. Something broken? Throw money at someone and it’s either fixed or replaced.

They stopped throwing money so now when a fridge dies it’s just no fridge for a week.

I mean that’s how governments always solve problems.

When the problem is bills.