(http://www.zewp.com/dump/photo/income_distribution_trend.jpg)
Scuse me, gotta grind my teeth and remind myself why Marx is a dry read....
The numbers from 1979-1982 are kind of interesting.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 29, 2013, 04:56:40 AM
The numbers from 1979-1982 are kind of interesting.
Indeed.
Might have something to do with a Hollywood actor gaining the presidency.
And you know, the bipolar economy. But we don't talk about that anymore. That's ancient history.
What's it measuring? I read the thing on the side but I don't get it.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on August 29, 2013, 05:53:55 PM
What's it measuring? I read the thing on the side but I don't get it.
Speed of becoming richer.
1979 to 1980 are actually not interesting, as despite an immediate dip in the 1%, that's from an arbitrary starting point of 1980 with everyone beginning at $100. What's interesting about this graph is not just the trends but the overall shape of the different time series. There are unfortunately too few points to do any statistics on fractal dimensions, but from the 1% it's obvious there's something chaotic going on there. While the other lines are all nearly linear, the 1% line has huge changes in slope over relatively short periods. It's a great illustration of a gambler's ruin/running sum time series, probably with fractal dimension over 2, and probably closely following the stock market. In other words, gambling.
Quote from: Kai on August 30, 2013, 04:39:47 PM
1979 to 1980 are actually not interesting,
BALLS. I just read a study on this.
Link?
I saw a doc about researching a study on the study of links
Quote from: Kai on August 30, 2013, 05:43:11 PM
Link? (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,35197.msg1291607.html#msg1291607)
Now you too can research a study on this!