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Re:Lessons from Cellphones on Distribution of Wealth by kristopolous on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @03:41PM (#10665641)
Do you know what "wealth" is academically? (I don't) How much of it access to capital (credit worthiness), ownership of property, influence over the commons (political power)?

The last one is tricky. If one society says say, all water is privatized and you need x amount for your factory then you purchase it. If another says all water is communal, then you need to assuage the community to permit you x amount.

At the end you have the effectively the same thing and these two people have the same "water wealth". Measuring generalized wealth quantitatively however, I don't know what that means.

Re:Lessons from Cellphones on Distribution of Wealth by magicalist on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:54PM (#10666125)
Your answer is in the study[1] (see section 1D) which was modeled to align broadly with the Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey[2]

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2015/11/24/350.6264....

[2] http://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-FR259-DHS-Fin...

Re:Lessons from Cellphones on Distribution of Wealth by kristopolous on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @05:17PM (#10666266)
Awesome ... I have my reading for this evening. Thanks.
Re:Lessons from Cellphones on Distribution of Wealth by jonesb6 on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @08:46PM (#10667210)
Reminds me of some post talking about a forum in China where people tried to one-up themselves with how much wealth they had.

* First guy showed some cash

* Second guy showed a car

* Third guy showed a bank balance

* Fourth guy showed equity in some company

* Fifth guy showed a government document entitling him rights to some natural resource

* Sixth guy just showed an invitation to some private gathering of the political elite.

Everyone shut up after the sixth guy.