>>  One person is better off while 9 others are worse off.

>I missed the example given so I must ask, are the 9 worse off then they
were before, or are they simply worse off relative to the other individual?

Worse off then before, I explain again:

The size of the pie was 100 dollars.  Each person had 10 dollars income.
Therefore the average is 10 dollars a person.  The size of the pie increases
to 102 dollars, population remains the same, the average becomes 10.2
dollars, BUT 9 people have 1 dollar income and one person has 93 dollars.

They, as a group, were better off with a lower average because the majority
of them(9) had a higher income.

Milutin

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