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The rule of Bureaucracy: grow to absorb all available resources

• paulryanrogers 2y ago
  The rule of Capitalism? The rule of monopoly? The rule of feudalism? Greed isn't exclusive to to systems of government.
  • AnthonyMouse 2y ago
    You're just listing different kinds of bureaucracies. The principal difference with capitalism is that there isn't supposed to be any constraint on everyone trying to do it, and then competition prevents any one entity from absorbing all the resources. This, of course, doesn't work if the incumbents capture the government and pass regulations that constrain the competition which is supposed to be keeping them in check.
    • paulryanrogers 2y ago
      Indeed, so capitalism in its purest, unbridled form has the same flaw: it becomes all consuming. Hence the need for regulation, another form of bureaucracy.
      • AnthonyMouse 2y ago
        The question is how to constrain that bureaucracy to upholding competition without allowing it to be captured by private interests or, itself, expand to consume excessive resources.
• User23 2y ago
  Ah yes, Parkinson's Law. (defun parkinsons-law (k m p n) (/ (+ (* 2 (expt k m)) p) n)) Where: The retval is the number of new employees to be hired annually k is the number of employees who want to be promoted by hiring new employees m is the number of working hours per person for the preparation of internal memoranda (micropolitics) p is the difference between the age at hiring and the age at retirement n is the number of administrative files actually completed