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AndyinBC's avatar

Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy states:

"In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get control of the organization, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy was established to achieve have less and less influence, and are sometimes eliminated entirely."

- Scientist and author Jerry Pournelle

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L  Young's avatar

Thomas Sowell writes about how a government agency once created does good for about 10 years then it becomes captured.

After that it works for the industry it was supposed to control and against the people it was supposed to protect.

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