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It's true of any large company. There are many people not doing anything. Simply because of the number of employees, and the manner in which large companies tend to stop focusing on outcomes.

That doesn't mean most were not doing anything, but "most" is not the word used in the comment to which yours replies.

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aka Price’s Law: Why Only A Few People Generate Half Of The Results

https://medium.com/darius-foroux/prices-law-why-only-a-few-p...

That article is total garbage and the author comes off as a complete douche bag. Did he add anything of value or just regurgitate a link to Wikipedia, quote Jordan fucking Peterson and take some time to attack some straw-man voss-water drinking academics he made up?

This is true in the entertainment industry, but it's because consumers want to buy what everyone else is buying. Not because there's a huge difference in performance. In fact, it's the opposite. There are many equally attractive/talented performers who can do the job just as well. It's very competitive, success is rare and fleeting even when it does come.

This translates into other parts of the economy. High income households experience high income volatility, consistent with the hypothesis that there is lots of competition at the highest levels of success—not very little competition.

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