If what you are saying is that a large part of happiness is related to your distance to the mean wealth, wouldn't you say a society with a 'normal' wealth distr

If what you are saying is that a large part of happiness is related to your distance to the mean wealth, wouldn't you say a society with a 'normal' wealth distribution is going to be on average happier than a society with a 'bimodal' distribution? The technologist view is that automation is taking us in an increasingly bimodal direction, and that BI can "raise the floor" to pinch the two humps closer together. That doesn't seem zero sum to me - because the function relating happiness to distance-from-mean isn't a linear one. Distribution types for reference: http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/data-collection-analysis-tools/overview/histogram2.html http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/data-collection-analysis-...