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I'm not sure it's as relevant as you seem to think. For one, the distribution of the population was never initially "random". But second, the idea of boiling it

I'm not sure it's as relevant as you seem to think. For one, the distribution of the population was never initially "random". But second, the idea of boiling it down to "how satisfied are they" being the same as "there's enough people like them around them" is pretty close to what people are saying is happening anyway: sure there is "self-segregation" happening because people want to be close to their families, but "white flight" is a thing too. Racism comes in a huge variety of different hues, but when one population is segregated in the nice neighborhoods and another is segregated around the not-so-nice, I find it difficult to accept that self-satisfaction with the number of similar neighbors is much of a driving factor of anything.

Baeocystin 10y ago
Don't misunderstand- I am certainly not claiming that racism isn't an issue! My only goal is to try and get them to see the world as something more complex than the 'agree with everything we say or you're literally Hitler' dichotomy that currently appears to be popular in elements of the modern left. (Perhaps I find this particularly frustrating, as I am left-leaning myself.) The concept that reasonable people can disagree is something that I think everyone, regardless of political persuasion, should keep in mind. And part of learning that is seeing how multiple models, even simple toy ones like this example, can explain large-scale behaviors in ways other than one's currently-held belief, whatever that may be.