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top-heaviness

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One of the most visually offensive things about a lot of communist architecture is top-heaviness.

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One of the most visually offensive things about a lot of communist architecture is top-heaviness.

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One of the most visually offensive things about a lot of communist architecture is top-heaviness.

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One phenomenon that's been happening is the increasing top-heaviness of society due to automation because you simply need less people to work.

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Or it could be that younger founders are severely under-funded because the top-heaviness of the winners vastly outweighs the higher number of failures.

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Obviously you'd expect some top-heaviness here, but it makes one wonder about the cost of futile care (both in $$ and human suffering).

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Google is penalizing sites that violate their standards of top-heaviness.

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The issue I see exposed is rather the top-heaviness of many modern companies where there are too many managers and too few people that do actual work.

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“mean statistics” don't tell you anything about “at all levels”, and are misleading because of the increasing top-heaviness of the distribution.

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This top-heaviness seems strongly correlated (and possibly causally related) with the drive to brand "administration" as a specialized skill needing its own experts, and keeping away bottom-up domain experts who would evolve into these roles (keeping one foot in the domain and another foot in administration/management).

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"The most damning fact revealed in the paper is not the extreme top-heaviness of the Bitcoin ownership pyramid, but rather the elaborate lengths to which the hoarders went in order to conceal their existence from “rank and file” users." I don't see how it could possibly have been made any clearer.

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One of the most visually offensive things about a lot of communist architecture is top-heaviness.