Glancing at the Wiki page, it seems like it comes from this dude realizing "Whoa. In Italy 80% of the land is owned by 20% of the population" and that being used to create this "principle" to apply to other things.
A reasonable person might ask "Damn why is land ownership so messed up?"
To which the economist replies "Well clearly it's just the natural state of the world."
Glancing at the Wiki page, it seems like it comes from this dude realizing "Whoa. In Italy 80% of the land is owned by 20% of the population" and that being used to create this "principle" to apply to other things.
A reasonable person might ask "Damn why is land ownership so messed up?" To which the economist replies "Well clearly it's just the natural state of the world."