Counterintuitive Facts (32): Why Do the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer?

I. Open social media. You'll notice an absurd phenomenon: Those influencers who can afford Hermès, brands give them Hermès for free. While ordinary girls earning a few thousand dollars scrimp and save to buy it. Banks are the same: they desperately want to lend to companies that don't need money, while giving small businesses that desperately need cash all kinds of trouble.

II. This sounds so unfair. But this is the world's underlying code: Matthew Effect. From a Bible verse: "For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them."

III. This isn't God's curse. It's the positive feedback mechanism of complex systems. In any network, resources automatically flow toward the node with the most connections.