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The 80/20 rule, or "Pareto Principle", comes from economics and refers to the observation that inequality often approaches a distribution where the 20% richest own 80% of the wealth. In case of the sexual market, wealth would be the number of sex partners. | The 80/20 rule, or "Pareto Principle", comes from economics and refers to the observation that inequality often approaches a distribution where the 20% richest own 80% of the wealth. In case of the sexual market, wealth would be the number of sex partners. | ||
It is important to remember that Pareto was a lunatic who genuinely believed that his laws proved that social darwinism<ref>http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue80/Flomenhoft80.pdf</ref> was necessary to "eliminate" undesirables ("toxins").<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=zg91TAIs6bgC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=%22which+will+promptly+perish+if+prevented+from+eliminating+toxins%22&source=bl&ots=YmuWBObJGH&sig=ACfU3U2H_NqwX07WqcH7n-UTnQc74Pk_gw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiL0YLa2tHlAhVNmVkKHUjcBqYQ6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22which%20will%20promptly%20perish%20if%20prevented%20from%20eliminating%20toxins%22&f=false</ref> None of his laws have been proven as unchanging or inevitable. In other words, the "80/20" rule is a certain model of how inequality can manifest, but it does not prove that things will always be as severely unequal. | It is important to remember that Pareto was a lunatic who genuinely believed that his laws proved that social darwinism<ref>http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue80/Flomenhoft80.pdf</ref> was necessary to "eliminate" undesirables ("toxins").<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=zg91TAIs6bgC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=%22which+will+promptly+perish+if+prevented+from+eliminating+toxins%22&source=bl&ots=YmuWBObJGH&sig=ACfU3U2H_NqwX07WqcH7n-UTnQc74Pk_gw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiL0YLa2tHlAhVNmVkKHUjcBqYQ6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22which%20will%20promptly%20perish%20if%20prevented%20from%20eliminating%20toxins%22&f=false</ref> None of his laws have been proven as unchanging or inevitable. In other words, the "80/20" rule is a certain model of how inequality can manifest, but it does not prove that things will always be as severely unequal. Some economists, take less extreme positions and merely use such models to argue that some inequality is inevitable.<ref>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</ref> | ||
Many incels perceive their inceldom to be caused by the 20% most dominant men hoarding 80% of the females, which is a somewhat exaggerated view of the facts, except perhaps for a few subcultures and online dating platforms with very unequal sexual markets. For this reason, many incels rather use 80/20 as a meme to warn of the damaging effects of our current dating scene and increased competitiveness in online dating, knowing reality may not be as unequal (yet!). | Many incels perceive their inceldom to be caused by the 20% most dominant men hoarding 80% of the females, which is a somewhat exaggerated view of the facts, except perhaps for a few subcultures and online dating platforms with very unequal sexual markets. For this reason, many incels rather use 80/20 as a meme to warn of the damaging effects of our current dating scene and increased competitiveness in online dating, knowing reality may not be as unequal (yet!). | ||