Why the super rich are inevitable
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Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

The simple math of the Yard-Sale Model shows that if everybody started out with equal money in a fair economy, the outcome tends toward one person holding all of the money. The cool graphical simulations on this page demonstrate why.

    • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      4 hours ago

      You’ve demonstrated exactly how the system works. Statistically a few players will be lucky and become very rich. They’ll be looked at as “built different”. All the other poor players will try to emulate them as if they can beat the system by achieving some virtue like working hard enough or having innate skill rather than realize the system is mathematically impossible to beat.