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by snappyTertle 2662 days ago
That's assuming the area under the curve remains constant, when it doesn't. Redistribution will make the total wealth shrink.
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What sort of graph were you picturing? I was imagining wealth x population, in which case “area under the curve” would be “total population”, and wouldn’t change under a redistribution operation. I don’t know whether your claim about total wealth is true or not, but it seems like it relates to a slightly different idea than I was expressing.