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I think there's a kind of bell curve of economic health. Instead of trickle down you have a share factor - probably not a million miles away from a GINI coefficient.

Cultures which share too much stagnate through lack of incentive and reward.

Cultures which share too little stagnate through lack of majority opportunity and systemic top-down corruption.

The reality probably isn't as one-dimensional as that, but a Goldilocks economy which is designed with the explicit aim of balancing opportunity against opportunism could be an interesting thing.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Mar 11th, 2009 at 08:39:28 PM EST
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Interesting that you speak about cultures, and not economical models - I always thought that's what matters most actually.

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by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Wed Mar 11th, 2009 at 08:54:14 PM EST
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Bruce had a post up about the same subject a while ago.

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Mar 12th, 2009 at 06:43:16 AM EST
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