I’m willing to bet you can’t imagine how gardening somehow contributed to socio-economics… well, it did

Back in the early 1900’s an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, remarkably influential in his time, was also a keen gardener. Whilst carefully tending to growing peas, he noticed that 80 percent of his peas were produced by only 20 percent of the peapods. You and I may not have thought anything remarkable about that, but Pareto, a keen observer of economic inequalities noticed that this extends to many other areas of life and developed the Pareto’s Law or Principle, more commonly known as the 80/20 rule.

You’ll find that Murphy’s Law of Management follows the same principle - 80 percent of profits are usually generated by just 20 percent of employees.

So there you have it - gardening with peas created a whole economic way of thought.