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Its like the people in a profession make as much as a standard distribution or something or even a multimodal one (extremely high earners, average and low earners).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal_distribution



More like a power law (specifically, Pareto distribution). E.g. https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/L...


Yes, power law is more appropriate for fan following professions. Multi-modal fits lawyers, MBAs etc.




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