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Success to the Successful Turns a Small Early Lead into a Permanent Gap

Reserved to arc-. Rests on arc-what-an-archetype-is and lop- reinforcing loops. Adds the claim, unique in this prefix, that the amplified initial difference may be pure noise, which is what makes it an argument about structure rather than merit. Feeds lev-rules-and-incentives. Stops at the fence: no statistics or causal-inference treatment of regression to the mean.

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The Success to the Successful Archetype in Systems Thinking

Success to the Successful is a systems archetype (also called a "systems trap") in which two or more reinforcing feedback loops compete for a shared, often fixed, pool of resources allocated based on…