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Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them

Matthew 25:29

This reminds me of the power law that Peter Thiel talks about. He says that in any given field, a few people will dominate and the rest will get nothing. In Theil's example, one or two companies will dominate a given market while everyone else scrambles after a small piece of the pie.

But this seems to apply to other areas too. For example, a small group of composers wrote most of the repertoire of classical music that's played, while the rest of the composers are forgotten and hardly played. And of those composers, it's only a small number of their works that is widely played.

It seems to be a rule of the world that distribution is unequal, a small group of people do everything and the rest do almost nothing. A small group of people get everything, the rest get almost nothing.

Pareto Principle.

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