The 80/20 Rule

Just twenty percent of the members in any group or social system own eighty percent of the assets, indicative that scale indicates a growing concentration of power. The top 2,000 companies employ and influences a million people in the modern world, says author David Rothkopf. With cross-ownership and networking in all circles – business, military, religion, and the Internet among them – a few succeed, but the majority of participants within any given system are marginal.