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by fergussimpson 3742 days ago
Indeed, in fact in most situations it's impossible to be both an ordinary individual and be in an ordinary group.

Hypothetically, let's imagine there were 10 normal-sized planets with 10 people each, and 1 big planet with 1 million. In this scenario everyone is either on a strange (big) planet, or they are on a normal planet but they are not typical individuals, because over 99% live on the big planet.