[lbo-talk] Wealth Distribution & Kinetic Theor

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Apr 24 10:56:59 PDT 2007


Jerry:

Yes Carl, but what if the "You have arms, you take." also results in a wealth distribution in society that correlates with the statistical model of the Gibbs distribution, a model which was meant to apply to an ideal gas in equilibrium?

[WS:] Jerry, I am pretty sure that prices of gasoline correlate rather well with my age, and one can probably correlate the shoe sizes with the GPAs of their wearers. So fucking what?

PS. This compulsion to find correlations in everything is a sign of mental disorder, nicely portrayed the film "Pi" - the protagonist ended up drilling a hole in his head.

Wojtek



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