What Do The Wealthy, The Sun And Popular Kids Have In Common?

Introduction

To deeply understand Made In Canada Welcomes Foreigners Willing To Work we need to get metaphysical. For those who have forgotten: Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.

We start with a riddle: What do the wealthy, the sun, and popular kids have in common, and why should you give a shit? Bravo, they attract things. They have attracted and accumulated the most information in their respective ecosystems. The sun has accumulated the most matter in the solar system; the wealthy have banked the most money in the economy; and popular kids have accumulated the most social connections. They are examples of the 80:20 rule; the 20% responsible for 80% of outcomes, and this is a recurring pattern in networked information, observable if you are paying attention.

Network Science For Dummies

The United States National Research Council defines network science as “the study of network representations of physical, biological, and social phenomena leading to predictive models of these phenomena.” This predictable dimension of networked information is grounded in a few patterns. The first pattern is to collect the most goddamn points! Collecting points appears to be the underlying algorithm in the universe, therefore this is the first pattern of network science we must comprehend, friends. The second pattern is the magic that makes networked information grow: autocatalytic reactions wherein one reaction provides the fuel for the next reaction, creating a feedback loop that keeps the cycle growing. Autocatalytic reactions get very interesting with exponential growth: information can grow like a viral outbreak or compounded cash-money interest: $2, $4, $8, $16, $32, $64, $128. The last pattern is all about distribution: the 80:20 rule – like how a subset of popular kids always collect the most social connections.

To see the cycle play out, consider the early solar system: the sun attracted matter first, triggering an autocatalytic reaction which increased its gravitational force, providing a strategic advantage: the strongest sphere of influence. The sun then grew exponentially, each feedback reaction accumulating more matter. And just like the earth sucks you into its burning hot core of influence via gravity, the sun sucks all the planets with their moons in tow, into its burning hot core.

Sociograms & The Solar System

This is Jacob Moreno’s sociogram; the circles represent students; bigger circles have more social connections; smaller circles less. Loners are dots because they have no friends, at least now, but once they start stripping this could change.

Notice how the solar system looks like Jacob Moreno’s sociogram? Where matter dictates the size of planets in the solar system, social connections define the size of sociogram bubbles. These are macro and micro examples of the 80:20 rule.

Side Bar: To illustrate how this pattern plays out over extended time horizons, the sun has accumulated about 99.8% of the matter in the solar system.

In Conclusion

Walter Scheidel uniquely showcased the 80:20 rule in his book “The Great Leveller: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century” when he noted that within prehistoric grave sites, 20% of the dead were buried with 80% of the booty. Thus, the 80:20 rule is wildly metaphysical because it explains the distribution of information in nature and by extension who gets power, money and who’s more likely to baseball bat someone over the head to win. It also explains where you shake out in the game of life, thus the meaning of life, which is why you should give a shit.

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