Sure telling people that logarithms are involved will probably not help :-)
Also oversimplification probably wouldn't work either.
One key point is that - at a suitable level of abstraction - you can actually prove invariants of the system like limits to individual income/property/power. Invariants that you might or might not want to have.
You can prove limits to formal income/property/power but not to informal income/property/power.
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