The simple math of the Yard-Sale Model shows that if everybody started out with equal money in a fair economy, the outcome tends toward one person holding all of the money. The cool graphical simulations on this page demonstrate why.

  • Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Labor has value. You have access to some amount of labor each week that you value at [your salary]. Your employer values your labor at [some higher value, because they only pay you on they beyond you’ll bring in more money than you cost] and thus “wins” at the trade.

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      9 days ago

      This is true and I’ve said so in my original comment. Notice how the boss isn’t winning because they happened to win first in a series of dice rolls