US income distribution movie

26 March 2007

2 different movies depicting the US income distribution. "picture the population of the United States lined up on a football field. the poorest person on the far left, & the riches person on the far right. the vertical scale is income, represented by stacks of $100 bills".

now, also picture a Giant Sequia Tree, & while you are at it, the Mount Everest.

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Income and Wealth are not the same thing. BTW Wealth distribution I thing is much harder to measure.
I prefer the first video, is more original.

Ctrl_F9 . 29 March 2007

although they are not the same, they seem quite similar. yes, some exceptions exist.

infosthetics . 29 March 2007

Both movies are based on the false premise that the sum of all income and wealth in the U.S. is (or should be) owned by the collective whole. They twist the idea of wealth "distribution" from a mathematical concept to a social concept.

There is no finite collective wealth from which Americans receive a slice. If one person earns more income (or has more wealth) doesn't mean another person will earn less as a result. Capitalism doesn't work that way.

It would be interesting to see a similar example illustrating income "distribution" within the old U.S.S.R. My guess is there would be a very very thin stack across the entire length of the field.

The authors of both movies ignore human behavior and economic reality.

Atlas Shrugs . 27 April 2007

搬家公司 . 28 April 2008

The first one is much better.

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Hovers . 14 May 2008

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