"(there's a named law about this self-perpetuation, I forget the name)" Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy: In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the ben

"(there's a named law about this self-perpetuation, I forget the name)" Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy: In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle