"The Disaster family specializes in dimensional technology, as you may have gathered.  We sell twisted plants that grow better under the light of alien suns, engine lubricants that are easier to synthesize in vats with non-Euclidean geometries, spy-bred rats that were raised in four dimensions and can sneak around the corners of space, that sort of thing.  Then the money goes to Doctor Disaster and Doctor Disaster gives it out to people who need it and if they ask for what he thinks is 'too much money' he complains to his secretary about it and his secretary tries to do something about it and then Doctor Disaster fires him.  I think that's our basic system.  I don't actually know how else you could run a system like that -- if you try to write down all the places that people are spending money, it just encourages them to try to get other people to spend the money instead, so they don't get blamed.  The usual method is to perform brain surgery on people to make them be passionless financial decisionmakers, but Doctor Disaster doesn't want to do perfectly normal brain surgeries either."

"The Disaster family specializes in dimensional technology, as you may have gathered.  We sell twisted plants that grow better under the light of alien suns, engine lubricants that are easier to synthesize in vats with non-Euclidean geometries, spy-bred rats that were raised in four dimensions and can sneak around the corners of space, that sort of thing.  Then the money goes to Doctor Disaster and Doctor Disaster gives it out to people who need it and if they ask for what he thinks is 'too much money' he complains to his secretary about it and his secretary tries to do something about it and then Doctor Disaster fires the secretary.  I think that's our basic system.  But I don't actually know how else you could run a system under Doctor Disaster's constraints -- if you try to write down all the places that people are spending money, it just encourages them to try to get other people to spend the money instead, so they don't get blamed.  The usual method is to perform brain surgery on people to make them be passionless financial decisionmakers, but Doctor Disaster doesn't want to do perfectly normal brain surgeries either."