The famous Italian engineer Vilfredo Pareto observed this type of inequality of wealth in Italy, 1898. Mathematically his observation is a square root law, somewhat of a natural law.

In essence, in any system where creative human production is the form of measurement, if you look at the number of people who are producing in a given domain, square root of the people produce half the product

I quote Jordan Peterson:

"So that means if you have ten employees, three of them do half the work.

But if you have ten thousand employees, one hundred of them do half the work.

It's a very very vicious statistic.

But to blame that on the oppressive nature of a given system is to radically underestimate the complexity of the problem.

No one actually knows how to effectively shovel resources from the minority that controls almost everything, to the majority that has almost nothing because as you shovel money down it tends to move right back up, and it's a big problem."

- Lecture by Dr.Jordan Peterson