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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

The Pareto Principle is a bullshit theory where a crank saw a handful of statistics were similar and thus decided it was a natural law. The only reason it's still considered seriously is because economics is to mathematics what astrology is to physics.