Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy at play again. At this point, my feeling is that the local maximumizations that have driven us to this point are irrecovera

Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy at play again. At this point, my feeling is that the local maximumizations that have driven us to this point are irrecoverable. There is no “fixing” this system. It will carry on for a while yet out of momentum, but something disruptive will dethrone it eventually.