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Wealth inequality is mainly a statistical phenomena. If you start a perfectly fair society where everyone has exactly the same amount of money and you play a g
by juancn 18d ago
Wealth inequality is mainly a statistical phenomena.
If you start a perfectly fair society where everyone has exactly the same amount of money and you play a game were people interact and with equal random chance (i.e. each exchange you get a 50/50 chance of earning 1 buck or losing one), after a few exchanges you get a Boltzmann-Gibbs (exponential) distribution.
If each agent wealth chance of increasing depends on what they already have, you get a pareto distribution.
It's extremely hard to avoid at large scale.