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Analyzing an Extreme Case of Wealth Distribution
Consider a society of 100 individuals where 99 people own nothing, and a single individual owns 100% of the society's total wealth. If you were to plot a graph with the cumulative percentage of the population (ordered from poorest to richest) on the horizontal axis and the cumulative percentage of total wealth on the vertical axis, what would be the precise shape of the resulting curve? Justify your description by explaining how the data points for this society create that shape.
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