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Knowing a distribution, you know its median. Even if you just know the weight in a quantile (e.g. X% of wealth is in the hands of the top Y% of people), then you can upper bound the median wealth once you know per-capita wealth. And if you're willing to make some assumption about the general shape of the distribution, knowing it tells you even more.


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