My point in favor of the present income distribution being "natural" is that statistically, income is even somewhat more equally distributed than Tinder likes.

My point in favor of the present income distribution being "natural" is that statistically, income is even somewhat more equally distributed than Tinder likes. Both are indicators of how good you are/how much people want to deal with you: give you cash or have sex with you. If there is no 'trick' in either distribution, they must be distributed equally. They are. Income slightly more equally because of the minimum wage/social pressure on businesses to hire useless workers/government providing some crappy employment to useless people. Wealth is less equally distributed than income or Tinder likes, because it's an antiderivative of income distribution, also completely natural. And also because of the generational factor: you are very unlikely to get swiped right because of who your dad was, but your dad could have left you some cash or connections. And yes, income is less equally distributed now than in 2008 exactly for the same reason as millenials having less sex on average than X-ers had in 2008: because we now have Tinder and it makes picking best partners a lot easier, resulting in top 1% best having sex with everyone with just scaps left for others. Money follows the same way due to the same factor of the smartphones and the Internet in general: success has become infinitely scalable. It's extremely hard to do anything at all about it. Maybe we just need to know about this as a fact of life and build social constructs to contain the resulting pressures. [1] https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...