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John SiracusaA nice visualization and explanation of some economically relevant math: https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/
Porkchop D. Clown@siracusa It sounds a bit like people who gamble believing that their winning streaks pay for their losing streaks.
Zac Bir@siracusa now do one for guillotines
2sk21@siracusa Nasim Taleb had a section in his book Fooled By Randomness that covered a similar topic. Worth reading
Jakub Kornatowski@siracusa nice 👌 but I can say that’s a little flattening of the topic, still worth to share though.
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QuarterSwede@siracusa Found this to be an excellent concise explanation. Thanks for sharing!
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Wun Chiou@siracusa really interesting, but the web dev in me gives a tip of the hat to the scroll animations and charts 🎩
Anthony Sorace
Adam Haskin@a @siracusa @kottke I think even in the ideal situation with wealth redistribution you end up with someone who is still 100 times more wealthy than the poorest.
So you still end up with an imbalance, but it's somewhat capped not controlling for the other issues about rewriting laws that they bring up.
George Hammerton 
@siracusa Really creative way of presenting a dry (but fascinating) topic – I'll be thinking about this for weeks I reckon.
@siracusa nice, thanks
Miragee@siracusa Interesting, and visually amazing! (I started my collection of vintage watches a long time ago. Still remember how overjoyed I was to purchase that first 1928 gold-filled Bulova for $25.🥳)
José A. Rodríguez@siracusa Very interesting, thanks for sharing!!!
Mike Rockwell@siracusa this ignores the massive amount of influence that the source of the most tax dollars will receive for their larger contribution, which is built-in to the system.
And those that contribute the most tax dollars are more likely to be running businesses that end up with government contracts, putting the money right back in their pocket.
I don’t think there’s a way to “fix” this without introducing even more opportunities to abuse and corrupt the system.
Joshua Humpherys@siracusa what an interesting article that does an excellent job explaining a difficult to intuit topic!!
Brian Moon@siracusa Thank you for sharing! The article talks about across-the-board redistribution but I wonder what would happen with an actual progressive tax structure?
Gregnee@lunarobverse @siracusa The results would be even better, obviously.
𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕘𝕖@siracusa very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Felipe de UrbinaEsta visualización está interesante. @RobertoAnguloS