The Implications of The Pareto Principle

Society, in particular the government, MUST respond to this inequality for a variety of reasons.  

First, it is both cruel and immoral to ignore needy families and children. A moral view of government certainly must include the necessary measures to address poverty, human need, and injustice.  

Second, not only is it a moral issue to ignore inequality in society, it is unwise as well. An ignored underclass can quickly become violent, and the potential for a violent upheaval of law and order is a real possibility.  

Third, the greatest good in society can only be achieved as its most productive members are allowed to contribute their gifts, abilities, and efforts to society. A path to success must be made available to every citizen in a community regardless of their social position.

  The church has always held that she has a practical duty as well as a spiritual duty. The church cannot simply say, “Be ye warmed and filled,” without giving “Them not those things which are needful to the body.” (James 2:16) 

That duty will become increasingly necessary as the incredible technologies of the modern era place, according to the Pareto Distribution , more and more money, property, and other blessings into the hands of fewer and fewer people.

  But the main responsibility for helping the needy must fall to every individual who finds themselves as the “haves” in the Pareto Distribution. Mathematical observations about success and poverty do not relieve the “haves” of the world from the responsibility of sharing their resources with the needy. When Jesus said, “The poor ye have with you always,” he identified the ongoing need in every generation for charity and giving. Proverbs warns of, “withholding more than is meet.” This practice, “tendeth to poverty.” (Proverbs 11:24) The same verse identifies the duty of every person to “scatter” the blessings they possess to others.