Re:Why are we still working this hard?
by tavavex on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:04PM
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All the effects in the parent comment favor the wealthy investors and huge companies over individual investors. Then the finishing blow is 'money makes money' with the compounding of investments and normal workers being naturally forced to spend a far higher proportion of their savings on survival and immediate expenses, which greatly reduces how much they can benefit in the first place. Sure, investing can still give you an edge compared to other people like you, but it does not right the wrongs of the system we're living in.
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Re:Why are we still working this hard?
by kelseyfrog on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:18PM
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To some/a fairly large degree, wealth fits a log-normal distribution[1]. A log-normal process is the statistical realization of the multiplicative product of many independent random variables[2]. When we take that as returns are a product (in a multiplicative sense) of investment, the result flows naturally. The basic multiplicative nature of investment returns is a direct cause of our wealth distribution - it couldn't have been different. Want a different wealth distribution? Use a different investment process. Good luck. The political machinations required to do that are left as an exercise to the reader.
1. Upper ranges more closely match a pateto distribution. For.the purposes of this argument, I don't think that is too relevant, but willing to change my mind.