mrts/wealth-distribution-rock-paper-scissors

Wealth distribution scenarios based on rock-paper-scissors game

wealth-distribution-rock-paper-scissors

Wealth distribution scenarios based on rock-paper-scissors game.

TODO: Explain what this is about, how to use it and add screencasts. Explore the implications.

Running

Prepare the Python virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the application:

python wealth-distribution-rock-paper-scissors.py

You can tweak the configuration in wealth-distribution-rock-paper-scissors.py before running the application:

class CONF:
    initial_wealth = 5  # should be >= 1; smaller numbers give more dramatic results
    debt_treshold = 0  # should be <= 0; or None for unlimited debt
    gini_revolution_treshold = 0.7  # should be > 0 and < 1; None for no revolution

References

1. Ugo Bardi. The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid
2. Mark Sponsler. What is a storm?
3. Buck Shlegeris. Gini coefficient calculator
4. Walter Scheidel. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
5. Robert MacCulloch. Income Inequality and the Taste for Revolution
6. Kohler, T., Smith, M., Bogaard, A. et al. Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica (and a summarizing article)
7. Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. Income Inequality
8. Lane Kenworthy and Timothy Smeeding. Growing inequalities and their impacts in the United States
9. Google search for Gini index