One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
“In fact, the least productive half of all participants seems to generate no more than 20 percent of the total output. … Only about one-third of all workers typically achieve a level of contribution equal to the average of those who contribute. … Astonishingly, the top 1 percent produce nearly twenty times the per capita output of the bottom half in many measurable undertakings.”
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