This really sounds like what I would call bureaucracy. Not project management, but nesting dolls of grift that create double-binds and negative externalities -

This really sounds like what I would call bureaucracy. Not project management, but nesting dolls of grift that create double-binds and negative externalities - all of this under complex, often criss-crossing laws that can only be interpreted to varying degrees of definition by lawyers who charge $1500 per hour. It's why upstarts (like America was in the 20th and 19th centuries) are so competitive. They have the frontier, emptiness, a blank slate. "It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”