Now, I'm no economist but we do have something called the "rich gets richer"-phenomenon in network science, which says that a node with more connections will have a higher probability of gaining new connections than a node with fewer connections. In this situation this would translate into a person having more wealth is more likely to gain more wealth than a person with less wealth, which in the big scheme of things is not a good thing

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You have examples of this phenomenon in a lot of areas:

-If you have several researchers working on an article, the one that already has the most recognition usually gets most of the credit, regardless of their actual contribution to the research.

-Scientific discoveries are usually attributed to more famous scientists even when it can be proven that another scientist published the same findings first.

-Children that have a harder time learning to read is more likely to accumulate learning disabilities (if you can put it that way).

-Famous actors get more job offers than actors that are better but less famous.

And the list goes on.

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So, to sum it up, you could say that advantage begets advantage begets advantage - which in turn can lead to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and that is not a good thing for society overall.

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