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Between the very top and bottom? Yes. https://voxeu.org/article/europe-s-rich-1300 https://voxeu.org/article/europe-s-rich-1300
by mgamache 5y ago
Between the very top and bottom? Yes.
https://voxeu.org/article/europe-s-rich-1300 https://voxeu.org/article/europe-s-rich-1300
- Consultant32452 5y agoDo you believe the pareto distribution of resources/wealth has changed, or that the over-all growth in total wealth maintaining a similar pareto distribution results in the chart you posted?
- mgamache 5y agoI think that resources in stable system (for example peacetime) tend to be increasingly horded by successful competitors. When rent seeking from those at the top becomes too expensive there is sometimes a reset that is usually violent. Sometimes the reset (war or plague for example) can be from external sources, but is still violent.
- Consultant32452 5y agoThis is how I would put it. Do you agree? Pareto distribution is the norm, marked by brief transitional periods during which the people at the top of the pareto distribution change. These transition periods correlate strongly with wide-scale disasters such as war or plague.