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Understanding Wealth Distribution in a Simulation of Random Money Giving

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The article discusses a simulation where 100 people with $100 each give a dollar to a randomly chosen person at each time interval, leading to unequal wealth distribution.

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People often expect the distribution to be close to uniform.

Inequality of wealth rapidly appears and persists in the simulations.

What's going on? Why wo

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A post on Decision Science about a problem of Uri Wilensky’s has been making the rounds: Imagine a room full of 100 people with 100 dollars each. With every tick of the clock, every person wi…

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