An interesting way of looking at this is that it's the Iron Law of Bureaucracy at work. The Iron Law of Bureaucracy: In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to

An interesting way of looking at this is that it's the Iron Law of Bureaucracy at work. The 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 that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle Also called the tragedy of the commons.