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This is a wild guess. But my intuition is that:
Let's model a system as follows.
There exists a space where multiple agents have to compete for some finite and some infinite resources.
Some of these agents spawn stochastically.
Agents can grow and die. (Assume some randomness here too)
Agents can destroy other agents and absorb them.
Agents have some kind of gravitational field, where a larger size is a competitive advantage.
The above feature ensures power law distributed size.
Leading to; In a large system, given enough time; Certain agents can gather such 'mass' that they just immediately kill or absorb any new agents that pop up. And they are disproportionately harder to fight against as time goes on.
Think monopolies, think mainstream culture, think religions. The system I intuited above can describe memetic systems at a certain level of abstraction.
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