There are plenty. For example, phoneme distributions and syllable distributions (as opposed to word distributions) are known not to follow Zipf&#x27;s law.<p>Are the sizes of cities and asteroids &quot;symbolic systems&quot;?<p>Anyway, my point (consistent with yours in fact) is simply that the shape of the income distribution should not be so surprising, or strike us as &quot;unnatural&quot;, given how often we observe the same shape of distribution for all kinds of things, both in economics and in the natural world.