Agreed. The use of the word "obey" is not felicitous, but that was not my original question. If the Gibbs distribution, meant to model an ideal gas, can also model wealth distribution in certain diverse societies -- 19th century Europe, 20th century India and Japan -- what does that say about the model and about wealth distribution. Sorry for the bad grammar.
Jerry
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CB: The explosion cloud of an atom bomb is similar to a mushroom. What does that mean ? A certain constellation of stars looks like a big dipper. What does that mean ?