Sunday, September 21, 2008

80-20 Rule Changed

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

This rule has changed. Now it is the 99.99 - 0.01 rule, probably called the Destructive Rule or the law of irrational few.

Examples
• A handful of people defaced the “Brand Bengal” in name of social justice. After the Tata’s many company’s pulled out of West Bengal giving a big setback to the state’s economy. These people got the political mileage but what about millions of unemployed youth.
• A handful of MNS member (or I should say hooligans) changed the face of the most cosmopolitan city of India, Mumbai. The nuisance element is so high that International brands write the store names in hindi and the big & mighty apologize in public, lest they may have to fight unreasonable people.
• The so call moral police whose issues range from New Year celebrations to discotheques to school uniforms while hunger, poverty and exploitation persists.
• Few want to be politicians are the ones who throw Taslima out of the country, who rage at Hussain’s paintings, who make Sania take a decision not to play tennis in India to hide from controversies.
• Some people who hurt Indian economy by jamming transport between Jaipur and Delhi to earn reservation for their community. And a handful of politician who erode the social fabric of India to exploit the reservation law to win elections.
• Some people who create a strom when a celebrity hunts a black buck, but don’t even comment as many lions and tigers are hunted at times for profit and at times because of ignorance.


The coward terrorists… who hide and kill innocent people to get their whimsical demands noticed, who bind the whole world in mourning and pain.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very much agreed to all these... but imagine a world without these?
it would again be a case where all news persons and politicians will go Unemployed!