Guy next to me on the train had like 100 books all about the pareto principle like surely 1 is enough. The rest was other business and self help books like cmon read something fun just once. Anyway i was reading Gormenghast cos im cool

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What is crazy is that the Pareto principle is literally an arbitrary ratio that was made up to justify why 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people. There isn't actually much more to it than that other than that some lean engineering guy from the U.S. got it in his head that it must be a magic ratio for efficiency because some fascist Italian matematician came up with it.

[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

20% of hexbear posters get 80% of the upvotes. Really makes you thonk

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Guy next to me on the train had like 100 books all about the pareto principle. like surely 1 is enough.

Mitch Hebderg

[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

20% of the people own 80% of the pareto principle books