Max Sawicky wrote:
> Now I see why socialism doesn't work: It violates the laws of physics -- or
> so claims an article in New Scientist this week.
>
> Here's the article's abstract: "Every country in the world has a few rich
> people and then a long tail of poorer and poorer people. In fact, not only
> does a filthy-rich minority always hog most of the wealth, but the
> mathematical form of the distribution is the same everywhere. . . .
>
> Somebody documented this a hundred years ago.
> Forget who. My memory says Italian . . .
>
> mbs
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