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Pareto distributions occur in all skill dependent distributions from musicians and academics. You say it like it's some evil conspiracy or that the rich only become rich by making others poor.

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It's not that rich people are evil. Rich people control the systems by which money is made and logically reserve as large a portion of that pie as they can for themselves. The problem is that as a group they have made it so that there is not enough at the bottom and policy needs to be changed to reflect that. It's like saying you have a group of two people in a room with a pump that keeps giving them air, but the pump is fed by a room full of 50 people who keep having a dwindling supply of air to breathe. The only thing keeping those two rooms apart is an unlocked door. At some point either the people with all the air share it, or the people in the room without it will open the door by force. It's just a statement of human nature. Imbalanced systems have a way of achieving balance.

> Imbalanced systems have a way of achieving balance.

You glossed over that like there is some ideal system we're being kept from by evil rich people. What exactly is this unlocked door we open and everything is solved?

When a man tells you he got rich by hard work, ask him: Whose? -Don Marquis

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