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It kinda reminds me of this visualisation from some survey of Americans in 2011. https://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-is-worse-than-you-think-2013-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-is-worse-than-you... The respondents weren't opposed to an exponential distribution as such; but the images of the disparities between what they thought was ideal, what they thought the reality is, and what the surveyors say the distribution is is still striking.