Jerry Pournelle is your Somebody, the discoverer of Iron Law of Bureaucracy 🙂
🗨 In any bureaucracy, people devoted to the benefit of bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals that bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and eventually are eliminated entirely.
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Also quite fi…
Jerry Pournelle is your Somebody, the discoverer of Iron Law of Bureaucracy 🙂
🗨 In any bureaucracy, people devoted to the benefit of bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals that bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and eventually are eliminated entirely.
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Also quite fits, the last of Robert Conquest’s 3 laws of politics ↓↓
🗨 The behaviour of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
Let’s see 😏 Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say:
🗨 bureaucracy = specific form of organization defined by complexity, division of labour, permanence, professional management, hierarchical coordination and control, strict chain of command, and legal authority. It is distinguished from informal and collegial organizations.
Would you argue the church with its byzantine hierarchy isn't a bureaucracy?! 😲
Jerry Pournelle is your Somebody, the discoverer of Iron Law of Bureaucracy 🙂
🗨 In any bureaucracy, people devoted to the benefit of bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals that bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and eventually are eliminated entirely.
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Also quite fits, the last of Robert Conquest’s 3 laws of politics ↓↓
🗨 The behaviour of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
This is also true of non-bureaucracies, too (think of a church, for example).
Let’s see 😏 Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say:
🗨 bureaucracy = specific form of organization defined by complexity, division of labour, permanence, professional management, hierarchical coordination and control, strict chain of command, and legal authority. It is distinguished from informal and collegial organizations.
Would you argue the church with its byzantine hierarchy isn't a bureaucracy?! 😲
THE CHURCH maybe, but every single church in America? Not even close.
Think PayPal.