• @qfjp@lemmy.one
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    29 months ago

    come back, and stop criticizing examples

    I’ll do that as soon as you define an “inverse function distribution” and give me the name of this “law”.

    No matter what amount you scrape from.the top, it won’t make a difference

    Patently false. The fact that any taxes work is an obvious counterexample, cause in our progressive tax system they “come from the top”

    Please stop! Read a book!

    Well you give up quickly. Why don’t you go back and find the name of your law, and then I can give you a reading list.

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        9 months ago

        Learn to read, I said they “come from the top,” not the richest. Below a certain income, we don’t tax so what I said is tautologically true.

        I’m familiar with Zipf’s law, and what it means in this case is that if you have a distribution of people sorted by wealth, the wealthy are MUCH wealthier than the poor, or worded in the direction of the law the poorest will have money proportional to the reciprocal of the size of the population. You know what that means? It means the wealthy are THE ONLY GROUP that can bear the tax burden.

        The more you insist that I should read a book, the more it sounds like you haven’t read any. But keep talking, eventually you’ll understand the implications of what you’re saying.

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            29 months ago

            Dude, don’t tell me what I know when you can’t get the terminology right, and can’t bother to remember the name.

            Oh wow! You also know how to use mathematica! To reproduce the graph on Wikipedia! I guess that means you know statistamics or whatever the name is.

            Now extend your graph to people making below minimum wage. Can.you tell me where all.the tax money is going to come from? It uses calculus though, so hopefully you can be bothered to remember how integrals work (or as you probably call them, integracalc distribution functions)

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                29 months ago

                A non linear fit! Holy shit! Thats the same graph they have on Wikipedia! While I don’t believe you have a degree past high school, your arrogance does match the physicists in grad school. Probably also explains why you think using Mathematica is impressive.