Most traders believe the market is a fair game—one where discipline, knowledge, and effort lead to success. But beneath the surface lies a harsh statistical truth: the market is a redistribution engine shaped by the Pareto Principle, where a small minority inevitably wins and the majority must lose. In this episode of The Lucid Blur, Sayed Hamid Fatimi explores the unforgiving structure of financial markets, the myth of equal opportunity, and the deeper systems of extraction that benefit from the illusion of fairness. Welcome to the Pareto Trap.