{"id":77172,"date":"2023-07-26T04:12:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T04:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/?p=77172"},"modified":"2023-09-06T19:15:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:15:36","slug":"does-this-simulation-explain-why-life-is-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/does-this-simulation-explain-why-life-is-unfair\/","title":{"rendered":"Does this Simulation Explain Why Life is Unfair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-margin-top:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/dev\/mess\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"mess-feature\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"A screenshot of the simulation\" src=\"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mess-feature.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-77173 disable-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mess-feature-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mess-feature-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mess-feature-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mess-feature-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mess-feature.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:80px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/dev\/mess\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Run the Simulation<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>If you had a room full of 100 people and gave each of them a dollar, then every day, had each person give a dollar to another randomly-selected person, what do you think would happen?<\/p>\n<p>I first read about this simulation in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=6221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> several years ago, and the results really surprised me. I programmed my own version using p5.js while working on a video for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingle.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comingle<\/a> exploring the nature of wealth inequality.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshworth.com\/dev\/mess\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">run the simulation<\/a> yourself or just watch the video below.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;--awb-align-self:center;--awb-width:100%;--awb-margin-top:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><lite-youtube videoid=\"Dfu3VvpigZo\" class=\"landscape\" params=\"wmode=transparent&autoplay=1&amp;enablejsapi=1\" title=\"YouTube video player 1\" data-button-label=\"Play Video\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" data-thumbnail-size=\"auto\" data-no-cookie=\"on\"><\/lite-youtube><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is harsh, cruel and random. Thanks a lot math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,8,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interactive","category-interesting","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77177,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77172\/revisions\/77177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}