By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado
Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a famed British naval historian (I mean really, just try to make up a snootier British name) who died in 1993.
He is most noted for predicting, with complete accuracy, that in 2024 the Denver metro area would have more homeless than ever.
Well, he might have used slightly different words, but lo and behold, the latest data release proved him right.
In 1955, after a career of watching governmental inefficiency, he published a satirical essay in The Economist magazine and introduced the world to “Parkinson’s Law.” You instinctively know and understand it.
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