Equality...

                                                                                                                         (Illustration by Mike Lester)

If you're a member of a club or community you either firmly believe in the 80/20 rule or if you don't it'll make sense & resonate with you for sometime, if not your the rest of your life.

It is the premise that 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people.

It comes from the Pareto Principle or Pareto Wealth Distribution where it's stated that 80% of the wealth will end up with just 20% of the people. Its not a new trendy buzz phrase, this is an old idea from an Italian civil engineer named Vilfredo Pareto. He was born in Paris in 1848 & died in Switzerland in 1923.

What astounds people when they look into this amazing life ratio is that it still applies no matter what the form of government or economy is in play.

Capitalism, Democratic Socialism, Communism. It's a feature of capitalist Japan today as it was 300 years ago in feudal Japan. It's play now in Cuba, Zimbabwe & China as well as Canada, the UK and France. It's in play in North America & North Korea.

It is sadly the reason that socialism/communism and any other Marxist derivative becomes very popular in the minds of young, subversive have nots and some half haves on the outer. Reason is they think the 80/20 rule can be ruled out by law. It cannot. The defining underlying driver is humans & how they act.

There are those in desperate poverty & it is the duty of all of us to help those people, those least able to help themselves but the left wing action want everyone on the same level, which of course means stealing often by the point of a gun. In less totalitarian countries it's the idea of taxing the wealthiest.
Generally this doesn't work for long. Those who are the wealthiest 20% will use all manner of mechanisms from tax accounting to reduce their exposure or just plain emigrate to a tax haven country. Which of course does no good for anyone. You eventually return to maintain an 80/20 rule of wealth distribution but with less total wealth, or the poor get poorer still.

Those wearing Che Guevara shirts usually are subversive but mostly are those who do not know how blood thirsty he was as a cold killer of his fellow man. How does class warfare be a thing when you're slaughtering people of different view or from a different street. Also, there has never ever been a nation or economy of a Marxist/Socialist/Communist stripe that has been successful without killing or stealing and even then, when it runs out of other people's money and enemies of the state it will implode.

How this is lost on young people I'll never know.

But the claim that only a square root of any given population will be very successful is very predictable but its considered very unfair. Why add unfair?
Life is not about equal outcomes for everyone, no matter what leftists tell you socialism can deliver.
It can't.
But of that square root of any given population that's very successful, the square root of them is incredibly successful, incredibly wealthy. Those who become very successful, "more is added unto them".

Bill Gates from the USA is considered very if not incredibly successful. Well how do you define successful because Burt Munro from New Zealand was also incredibly successful at what he did...he just didn't die a wealthy man.

Whatever happened to "do the best you can with what you've got and where you can help others" ?

If you're without anything, getting something raises you.
Somehow though, we have a young thinking set across all ages of society that thinks some form or other of socialism is the answer.

Leftist singer song writer Billy Bragg is a multi millionaire, so too is Labor leader Bill Shorten.
For all the class warfare cat calling and gas lighting they're a part of, they are totally unaffected. I wonder why the rebellious don't rise up and tip them out first before marching towards the electoral booth with burning lamps and sharp pitch forks.

80/20 wealth distribution even applies in the Labor party and is the core basis of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

The real answer is be happy with what you have, do the best with have you're got, help those who cannot help themselves & build strong vibrant communities.

 

Sadly humans gravitate to tribalism of one sort of another despite the fact that 80/20 remains.

The thing with capitalism is its the only successful, self sustaining system known to man. Its the only system where there is migration in & out of the wealthy. Should point out Bill Gates' grand parents were not wealthy but his parents did go on to be better off, Bill went onto be very well off. 100 years from today its inevitable that all Bill's descendants WON'T be super wealthy like him. Some will be successful at what they do and some won't. Some might even be below the poverty line.

Marxist derivatives are not the answer to any problem. Indeed in the middle east peace only happens in bursts and even then the only system that last is a strict if not brutal hierarchical one.

None of the Chardonnay Socialists from fine upbringings in leafy suburbs seem too intent on helping their oppressed brothers & sisters under constant class oppression.

Odd.

Odder still is that Chardonnay Socialists in Australia still think that socialism is the saving grace of mankind.

Despite the constant and overwhelming facts throughout history.

"The World Was A Perfect Place Until The Humans Got Here"