Super Mario and the 80/20 Principle
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4 min readSep 30, 2019
Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto noted the 80/20 connection while at the University of Lausanne in 1896, and published his findings in his first work, Cours d’économie politique.
Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population.
But this phenomena doesn’t stop there.