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Hamsterday 6: Stratification

Social stratification is, as far as we can determine, a universal feature of complex societies tipified by a division of labour. It is measured - crudely - by the GINI coefficient, which measures the distribution of wealth. The fact remains that this schematic representation of Hamsters strikes painfully close to actual human distributions of social status, wealth, education and so forth. Reader, you would do well to recall, that what actually exists may have nothing to do with what may actually be fair.

In our Hamster Education series: stratification and inequality. Or why the rich get richer and the poor get more numerous. A fun introduction might be the Gini coefficient. Go forth and multiply!

This was written by Luka. Posted on Monday, December 3, 2007, at 3:43 pm. Filed under Hamsterday, In Human News 2.0. Tagged , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

5 Comments

  1. vale wrote:

    Aleluja …

    Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 8:44 pm | Permalink
  2. Luka wrote:

    You do not find my social commentary amusing? Alas … oh woe, oh woe!

    Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 9:36 am | Permalink
  3. Dinozaver wrote:

    Suppose they’re all the same colour. How do you tell the dop dog … err … hamster?

    Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 10:25 am | Permalink
  4. Luka wrote:

    They’re never the same color … the higher up they climb, the more they bleach. Just like Jackson.

    Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 12:51 pm | Permalink
  5. Valentinegb wrote:

    Good post., man

    Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 12:07 am | Permalink

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