Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
There’s a <i>chance</i> I’m doing this a great disservice, but this whole site and subject seems to scream pseudoscience.<p>It seems largely pushed by one guy - Ole Peters. It seems he created the Wikipedia page on this subject. His research is done under the umbrella of the authoritative sounding “London Mathematical Laboratory”, which he founded.<p>It makes giant claims, like the headline here which seems intended to be read as “mathematics proves collectivism is best” - and yet offers little empirical evidence beyond saying that an abstract mathematical model can tell us something about the real world. Spherical horses and all that.<p>It even pulls the classic pseudoscience manoeuvre of positioning itself against “mainstream economics”.<p>Crank until proven otherwise IMHO.<p>Edit: looks like it’s not just me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2306.03275.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2306.03275.pdf</a><p>Edit 2: he has a Twitter account where he rails against mainstream economics. He’s a physicist.