The Pareto Principle says 80% of outcomes come from 20% of causes.
But when the government gets involved?
Congratulations — the math melts into chaos faster than a budget surplus before an election year.

In The Pareto Principle Meets the Government, Harry Lauder delivers a wickedly funny tour through the upside-down universe where efficiency goes to die, accountability goes on vacation, and paperwork multiplies like caffeinated rabbits. This is the world where 80% of resources create 20% of results — and the remaining 20% create 80% of the scandals.

From departments that require a permit to apply for another permit, to budgets that repair the wrong roads for the right cousins, to public services where 20% of staff do all the work while everyone else studies the strategic importance of lunch breaks, this book reveals the beautifully absurd logic at the heart of modern bureaucracy.

You'll discover:

Why committees exist to produce nothing — consistently
How crisis management involves 12 steps, 11 of which are "issuing statements"
Why campaign promises evaporate like morning mist
How regulation transforms simple tasks into Olympic-level events
And why citizens always fix real problems long before official systems finish forming a task force

This is your field guide to surviving — and laughing at — a government that reliably inverts every rule of efficiency known to humankind.

If you've ever waited in line, paid a tax, filled out a form, watched a debate, or survived a snowstorm, this book will feel uncomfortably familiar… and extremely cathartic.

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