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And by the time the Soviet revolution 
came around,

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which would be at the latter part of the
19 tens after the first world war,

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the peasant class had actually 
established farms,

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of course,
varying productivity.

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Some of the peasant farmers were very,
very good at being farmers and produced 

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a huge proportion of rushes and the 
Ukraine's food.

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Because one of the things we'll talk 
about this later,

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as the class progresses,
one of the things that you'll find if 

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that if you look at creative production 
in any domain,

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it doesn't matter.
Artistic Domain,

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food production novels,
written novel,

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Soul,
money generated,

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number of companies,
generated,

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number of goals,
scored in hockey,

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et cetera.
Any number of paintings,

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painted,
number of compositions,

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written,
anything like that.

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Where where the fundamental underlying 
measure as human productivity,

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what you find is that a very tiny 
percentage of people produce almost all 

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of the output.

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It's called a pareto distribution.
P A r e t o,

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and it was studied in detail in 
scientific productivity by someone named

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does solar price.
It's a square root law.

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So here's the law.
Fundamentally,

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if you look at the number of people who 
are doing,

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who are,
who are in a given domain,

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who are producing in a given domain,
the square root of the people produce 

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half the product,
so that means if you have 10 employees,

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three of them do half the work,
but if you have 10,000

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employees,
100 of them do half the work,

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right?
It's a very,

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very vicious statistic and you won't 
learn about that in psychology for 

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reasons I have no idea about because you
learned about the normal distribution 

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and not the prieto distribution,
but pareto distributions govern,

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for example,
the distribution of money,

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which is why one percent of the people 
in the general population have the 

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overwhelming amount of money and one 
10th of that one percent has almost all 

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of that.

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Right?
So I think it's like the richest 100 

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people in the world have as much money 
as the bottom two and a half billion and

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you think,
well that's a terrible thing,

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and perhaps it is.
But what you have to understand is that 

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that law governs the distribution of 
creative production across all creative 

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domains.
Right,

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it's something like a natural law and we
can.

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We'll talk about that more,
but imagine what happens when you play 

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monopoly.
You've all played monopoly.

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What happens when you play monopoly?
One person ends up with all the money,

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right?
Then you play another game of monopoly.

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What happens?
One person ends up with all the money.

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It's actually the inevitable consequence
of multiple trades that are conducted 

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randomly.
So if you take a thousand people and you

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get them to play a trading game,
you get each give them $100,

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say or $10,
and they have to trade with another 

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person.

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By flipping a coin I.
When the coin toss you give me a dollar,

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you win,
I give you a dollar.

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If we all play that long enough,
one person will end up with all the 

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money and everyone else will end up with
zero.

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So it's a deeply built feature of 
systems of creative production and no 

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one really knows what to do about it 
because of course the danger is is that 

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all the resources get funneled to a tiny
minority of people at the top and a huge

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section of the population stacks up at 
zero.

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But to blame that on the oppressive 
nature of a given system is to radically

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underestimate the complexity of the 
problem.

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No one actually knows how to effectively
shovel resources from the minority that 

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that controls almost everything to the 
majority.

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That has almost nothing in any 
consistent way.

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Because as you shovel money down,
it tends to move right back up and it's 

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a big problem.

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Anyways.
The reason I'm telling you about that is

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because after the peasants were granted 
their land and started to become 

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farmers,
a tiny minority of them became extremely

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successful and those people produced 
almost all of the food for Russia and 

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Ukraine.
So what happened in the 19 twenties when

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bloody lennon came along and 
collectivize the farms,

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was that they defined the Kulaks who 
were these tiny minority of successful 

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farmers who maybe had a brick house and 
were able to hire a couple of people and

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had some land in some livestock and were
very productive people.

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They define them as socially unfriendly 
elements and they sent groups of 

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intellectuals out into the towns to 
collectivize the farms.

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And so the idea was that while you would
pool your land and and everyone would 

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farm it collectively and the land was 
taken away,

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of course from the tiny minority of 
people who are actually productive and 

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had actually managed to own much of the 
land.

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So you have to imagine how that would 
occur.

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Okay.
So it's in the 19 twenties,

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it's after the world.
After World War One rushes in pretty bad

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shape.
The villages are full of brutalized men 

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who have posttraumatic stress disorder 
and lots of people who are not doing 

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well at all in the bloody intellectuals 
come into the town and they say,

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you know,
those successful farmers up the street 

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that you've always been pretty jealous 
about in your useless manner while 

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they're actually pigs and demons who are
stealing from you.

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So why don't you come out.
We'll form a nice little mob and we'll 

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take everything they've got.
And that's exactly what happened.

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And all those people were killed or 
raped or set off to Siberia in the 

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middle of the bloody winter where there 
wasn't even anything for them to.

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To anywhere for them to live or anything
for them to eat.

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So they all died.
And then the consequence of that was a 

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few years later,
6 million people starved to death in the

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Ukraine.