The Pareto Principle is just a kind of byproduct of variation in distributions, it may fall naturally out of a normal distribution and/or a Pareto distribution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution) and/or Zipf’s law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law), which are all in fact very common in reality, and why the Pareto thing is frequently approximately correct has been observed by many.
Distributions of behavior that are perfectly flat like you suggest might exist, but are less common in large populations or samples. Do we have any names/principles/laws relating to flat distributions in nature or human behavior? I’m curious if you could give some examples of what you’re thinking of, the situations where there’s 0 payoff until all the work is done, and what basis there is for claiming this is equally true and common as varied distributions?
Distributions of behavior that are perfectly flat like you suggest might exist, but are less common in large populations or samples. Do we have any names/principles/laws relating to flat distributions in nature or human behavior? I’m curious if you could give some examples of what you’re thinking of, the situations where there’s 0 payoff until all the work is done, and what basis there is for claiming this is equally true and common as varied distributions?