According to The Pudding, if the US population was represented by 1,000 people in a room, the richest person would be four times wealthier than the poorest 500 people combined.
But how do the richest folk in the world become so wealthy? Could it be that our economy is actually designed to create a few super rich people, as mathematicians suggest in the Yard-Sale model?
The Pudding has created an interactive step-by-step story showing how wealth is amassed, and you can play around with tax redistribution to see the dramatic effect it has.
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