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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by salty_biscuits on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:15AM (#17966445)
The maximum entropy situation is one dog with 6+ bones and lots with none. It is structurally broken at a statistical mechanics level if you are concerned about fairness.
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by spython on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:11AM (#17966751)
It's not easy to imagine somebody having 6+ full time jobs. Just because the time of the worker is the limiting resource.
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by TheBobinator on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:20AM (#17967758)
It is however easy to imagine "royalty employment": 1 executive employing 20 "clergymen" who don't work a lot but keep the executive happy, and who's needs are then maintained by 200 "peasants".
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by salty_biscuits on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:27AM (#17967085)
I was thinking of the financial rewards of said jobs (and probably stretching the metaphor a little thin). I think that without more constraints then you end up with a distribution that most people would consider unfair.
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