This is some of the best economic modeling I've seen, period, so obviously it's NOT being done by economists 🤔

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/

tl;dr Even in idealized conditions where everyone starts out on equal footing, and all transactions are fair, market economies will inevitably tend towards highly unequal wealth distribution (i.e. oligarchy), simply due to quirks of statistics. If anyone paid attention, this would be the end of all talk of "meritocracy".