The graph above represents the distribution of wealth according to the mathematical formula 1/x shown below. The area below the 1/x curve, as shown below, represents the sum of all the wealth out to the indicated percentage. For example: The calculation is that 20 percent of the population has 78 percent of the wealth. This fluxuates, but is almost exactly the ratio that income various wealth studies show.
The graph above is a sumation of wealth from the start of the 1/x graph shown below to the percentage shown. This graph shows that the top ten percent own 70 percent of the wealth. The top five percent of the population owns 60 percent of the wealth. The top two percent owns 50 percent of the wealth. The top one percent owns 39 percent of the wealth. The top one-half percent owns 30.5 percent of the wealth. The graph is sufficiently close to actual data as to be as accurate a working model as any for the distribution of wealth in Czarist America.