H% produce K% of output

H% of contributors → K% of output

The curve shows how output concentrates among top contributors. Each point (H, K) means: the most productive H% of people account for K% of total output. Larger orgs with the same decay rate are more unequal.

N = 20

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N = 200

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N = 1,000

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top H% threshold

10 %

n — decay rate

144

Populations:

K(H, N, n) = [1 − e^−HN/100n] / [1 − e^−N/n] × 100 | dashed diagonal = perfect equality | n ≈ 144 gives classic 10% → 50% for large N