Pareto distributions are as important as Gauss distributions for how the world works

the bell curve isn't the be-all-end-all

some of the creative industries seem better explained by the Pareto distribution - it's just a few people who manage to earn an income on it and there isn't really much of a middle ground where "most" are

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@thor More commonly its log-normal and not a Pareto for most cases where there is a lower boundry.

For example wealth distribution is a log-normal distribution. Even when it may have a shape similar to a pareto it is most likely log-normal (Which is a single end bounded version of a gausian)

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