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Interesting. Can you please clarify what is meant by "natural" in this context?

• betwixthewires 4y ago
  From a birds eye view, a Pareto distribution. From the ground, so long as nobody with political power influences the distribution of wealth and it flows with the market it is a natural distribution.
  • abrichr 4y ago
    If I understand correctly, this means that a natural distribution of wealth should have exactly zero correlation with distribution of political power, is that right?
    • myself248 4y ago
      Or should correlate exactly with population. Unless some people are somehow worth less than others, which would be an interesting assertion to make.
      • betwixthewires 4y ago
        It's an interesting demand to claim that everyone should have exactly the same amount of money and if that's not the case there's some moral failure. Reframing it as people who don't believe this believe people aren't equal is dishonest.
    • betwixthewires 4y ago
      Ideally, yes. There are those that argue that correlation between economic and political power is natural, and in a world where you can buy guns, that's somewhat true. But the creation of an artificial peaceful political system occurs in part to decorrelate the two. Money should buy you trinkets, political power should be democratized, at least if you believe in governments.