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A comment on Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018). Parent comment
> Which is better: everyone is always mediocre, or everyone gets to be super rich for a bit and poor for awhile?
This wouldn't agree with real life, it's been shown that rich stay rich and poor stay poor with much higher frequency than chance, almost always. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/29/study-to-succeed-in-america-...
> Which is better: everyone is always mediocre, or everyone gets to be super rich for a bit and poor for awhile?
This wouldn't agree with real life, it's been shown that rich stay rich and poor stay poor with much higher frequency than chance, almost always. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rich-kids-stay-rich-poo...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/29/study-to-succeed-in-america-...