> Now the law actually encourages it. do you know for a fact that a shitty law didn't incentivize it back then? we're talking about ancient greece here. etym

> Now the law actually encourages it. do you know for a fact that a shitty law didn't incentivize it back then? we're talking about ancient greece here. etymonline link for bureaucracy: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=bureaucracy http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc... 1818, from French bureaucratie, coined by French economist Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759) on model of democratie, aristocratie, from bureau "office," literally "desk" (see bureau) + Greek suffix -kratia denoting "power of" (see -cracy).