All your objections are valid, however all of these factors only add noise to the equation.
The Pareto distribution still observably happens in non-centralised, non-profit driven systems.
It is a byproduct of unequal output, not market type, provided there is some sort of reward proportional to performance.
I don’t think we should prescribe to the idea differences in skill are AS great as riches would imply.
They are only in the beginning. Money has the ability to compound and, in the case of competitive, elastic markets, this is even more starkly visible.
If I make more money one year due to higher fitness/better output, I have more revenue with similar expenses to my direct competitors, so I have more profit, I get to invest more, rinse, repeat, compounding my competitive advantage more-than-linearly.
This however is just more visible in economics. In fact, I would argue it goes for any type of competitive environment; the fewer limiting factors on individual faculties the more obvious it is.
Individual sports like tennis, swimming, running, or martial arts are usually dominated by a handful of individuals, who reach the peak and then get replaced as they get older, and new, stronger athletes join the competition (or sometimes if rulesets are modified to shake up the meta, but that would also change the parameters to determine fitness).
The only scenario where this does not happen is where there is no running incentive, or only weak ones, to excel in a particular pursuit.
Yesn’t.
All your objections are valid, however all of these factors only add noise to the equation.
The Pareto distribution still observably happens in non-centralised, non-profit driven systems.
It is a byproduct of unequal output, not market type, provided there is some sort of reward proportional to performance.
They are only in the beginning. Money has the ability to compound and, in the case of competitive, elastic markets, this is even more starkly visible.
If I make more money one year due to higher fitness/better output, I have more revenue with similar expenses to my direct competitors, so I have more profit, I get to invest more, rinse, repeat, compounding my competitive advantage more-than-linearly.
This however is just more visible in economics. In fact, I would argue it goes for any type of competitive environment; the fewer limiting factors on individual faculties the more obvious it is.
Individual sports like tennis, swimming, running, or martial arts are usually dominated by a handful of individuals, who reach the peak and then get replaced as they get older, and new, stronger athletes join the competition (or sometimes if rulesets are modified to shake up the meta, but that would also change the parameters to determine fitness).
The only scenario where this does not happen is where there is no running incentive, or only weak ones, to excel in a particular pursuit.