| | Merlin:
Cool. And, if we consider a plot of number of people at each age level, other than gross bulges, as in, the Boomers, the following is observed: A few million are born each year, and then some die way too young, and then some die young, and then some live to a media age, and then some live longer, and the some few live to a ripe old age.
And, the product of those two plots, over time, result in changes in the median income 'distribution.'
And if we consider 30 students walking into a classroom, where 2 take their education and 28 at most do what they are told, maybe, in an irony of Pareto Efficiency discussed elsewhere, the 2 do take their education do not take it from the 28 who do not take their education. A teacher, whose job it is to well offer, is just as happy when all 30 take their education, but there is an unequal 'distribution' of the taking of education. The 28 do not suffer fully from their failure to take their education, because they graduate into a world where their opportunities are not necessarily limited by their own failures to take their education. So still, this model could work.
When you multiply the cumulative affect of all of those distributions, you get humps in the 'distribution' of income in the nation.
And, when politicians lurch into that world looking for power, they know enough to count, and are going to alternately pander to the 28 with promises to feed them the 2, as well as pander to the 2 for bribes not to be eaten. And when they do so, they are only too willing to use plots of the 'distribution' of income to sell their power grubbing riding of all.
And still that corrupt model can work, until the politicians and 28 fail to modulate their riding of the 2 sufficiently(unlike the Mafia, who knows better.) When that happens, the 2 increasingly find other ways to participate in the economies(there really are way more than one of them, the myth of just one is sold by the politicians.)
In the old days, when the 2 would participate with effort at risk in the economies and provide wage jobs(effort not at risk)to the 28, the worst within the 28 were pandered to with stories that that the 2 were taking advantage of them, making them do all the 'real' work, while they skimmed off all the profit. Well, OK, decent folk don't want to do that to others...so they don't. Not if there are other ways to participate in the economies.
That leaves the folks who are not decent, who don't mind taking advantage of others. When we define employing others as a crime, then only criminals will employ others.
So, how is that model working out?
The economies are filled with folks who once were the 2 who have long ago concluded, if at all possible, 'neither an employee nor employer be.'
Only a fool would risk his own skin to take on the role of 'criminal' in the current tribal mess, and only yet criminals -- using OPM -- would gladly take on the role of 'criminal.'
This is the world built by our 'Grapes of Wrath' sensibilities, and it is a world built,in part, by incomplete understanding of plots of 'distribution' just like these-- a failure to take education.
regards,
Fred
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