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Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law
by hga 12y ago
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bu...
Those who focus on their position in the bureaucracy will almost always beat those who focus on the ostensible goals of it. Although in this case there were conflicting goals....
- TeMPOraL 12y agoReplace "bureaucracy" with "democracy" and you'll see the number one reason why politics in US and Europe sucks so much.
- hga 12y agoBy "democracy" you mean "republic", and it's long been known, and was remarked upon by our Founders, that they only work with a moral people. Which we are clearly no longer. We're steadily transitioning into other forms like empire and oligarchy because of that.