I'm having trouble following. >>> Power laws are inevitable and acknowledging this is the starting point to finding a solution. >> It wasn't too long ago that

I'm having trouble following. >>> Power laws are inevitable and acknowledging this is the starting point to finding a solution. >> It wasn't too long ago that there was a power law in owning people. > if you look up ownership statistics for slaves they indeed followed a power law, Your first statement is incomplete, at best. Thank you for explaining. As it stands, not sure how that explanation applies to the assertion. > Applying descriptive social statistics as prescriptive policy is idiocy. Not sure what that has to do with the topic either. The issue is with the articles' assertion that you can avoid the power law via political will, akin to "equality in outcome" or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2081_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2081_(film) Social statistics have to be taken into consideration, or solutions are broken conceptually.