I am glad Mr. Briggs is a statistician to the stars and I am glad I am not a star. This may be a fine game of mental masturbation for a few but its practical application escapes me.
If he is telling the socialists/Marxists that equality is impossible he is wasting his time. They already know that. Their goal of equality is just a facade, a lure to the have-nots. They know the 80-20 rule will always prevail no matter how many times they shuffle the deck.
Otherwise, I don’t see the interest in his theory even as a game.
Mind-numbed. Obviously, you are not a star, so it’s unlikely we’ll run into one another.
But, for fun, I can tell you that Marxists etc. do not know that equality is impossible. There is a large and growing literature on the subject. Obviously, the author I quoted was writing in that vein.
Which means, naturally, that there is work to be done to set these folks straight.