And that's where we stand, as a global population of humans and economic actors :) The idea that in real life the distribution would be way way 'worse'… is in

And that's where we stand, as a global population of humans and economic actors :) The idea that in real life the distribution would be way way 'worse'… is in fact heavily confirmed by observation of real life. I'm just trying to make sure people don't jump to the conclusion, 'it's positive feedback all the way down, this always represents merit'. It's quite shocking how little it represents merit. I would say it is equally likely to represent criminality, as merit. So even the 'positive feedback' ends up being pretty much a wash: we revert to the merit-less state of the distribution, only with an even more extreme power-law curve.