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I have a question, kind of from left field. I just read Robert Reich's "Aftershock", from which I personally took away the concept that the trend towards increasing concentration of wealth is at the root of unpleasant trends in our society and economy. He finishes the book with a workmanlike plan to reverse the trend.

I frankly haven't studied statistics or economics deeply, so pardon the naivity of this question: is there an underlying law or set of conditions that would make Robert's goal unfeasible?

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What other areas besides size/wealth do you think this might extend to, even if they can't be explicitly modeled? Knowledge comes to mind, both at the top end and expansion of "intellectual laypersons," and maybe some form of social capital...?

Otherwise, to clarify the "disinterest:" You crossed multiple fields of academics to tackle an ambiguous question prompted by exactly no one, framed your findings relevant to major issues, such as 21st century population dynamics and wealth distribution, and although all this required some serious effort and candle power, shared the most significant takeaways as concise, intriguing insights of personal interest when nearly all others in academia seem to only concerned with getting their work published.

Nobody else drops Big Knowledge like that. So please excuse the delay in processing these posts, but often my thoughts are left too incomplete at first to even "Like" them in good conscience. Unless, of course, I'd be giving a thumbs-up for Intellectual Balls, but that's why I come to this blog in the first place.

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