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Re:First Support for a Physics Theory of Life by empath75 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:11PM (#14860838)
When I was in vegas, the thought occurred to me that cities were structures designed to dissipate economic energy.

Money flows into vegas through the big casinos and gradually works its way out through the rest of the city, forming vortexes and whirlpools of economic activity, of lower and lower intensity as you move out from the city center, until it gradually fades out into desert.

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Re:First Support for a Physics Theory of Life by RangerScience on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:14PM (#14860866)
Interesting. How does this interact with the idea of trickle-down economics?
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Re:First Support for a Physics Theory of Life by gonvaled on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:25PM (#14861301)
Trickle down is a completely uninteresting tautology: money is used by the wealthy, so it "trickles down".

The more interesting question is if, while tricling down, people improve their life quality.

Far from true.

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Re:First Support for a Physics Theory of Life by RangerScience on Friday July 28, 2017 @04:05AM (#14872759)
Oh I agree!

But the idea of wealth concentration that then tapers out as a function of distance from the city center bears at least a superficial resemblance.

Perhaps why one works and the other doesn't is that personal wealth accumulation IS like water: it'll get stuck in local maxima, etc - whereas city wealth accumulation is more like sand; as it piles on top you get landslides that distribute.

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