A small intransigent minority with asymmetric preferences sets the standard for everyone else.
The most surprising idea in the library. If 3% will only eat kosher and the rest are indifferent, the supply chain goes kosher — segmenting costs more than complying.
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example-of →A tiny number of events produce most of the outcome — so most of what you do is supposed to not matter.The same disproportion in a social system rather than a portfolio: a tiny fraction of the population determines the whole outcome, because flexibility is cheaper to override than inflexibility.