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Pareto principle proves a tiny minority does all the work

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Whether it is sales, complaints, or sheer output, eighty percent of the results magically come from twenty percent of the causes. The Pareto principle is an empirical rule of imbalance that appears terrifyingly often across all systems. It effectively suggests that the vast majority of inputs are just background noise.

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