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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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