In general, bureaucrats support their own bureaucracy and want to expand its power. This makes it very hard to get someone in to destroy.
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Iron law of bureaucracy. Easily observable in real life:pic.twitter.com/BBhHAz78qw
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What's Trump's plan for dealing with the iron law of bureaucracy?
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In Dark Enlightenment grade school, the Iron Law of Bureaucracy is taught starting in kindergarten.pic.twitter.com/2ce7JA0F1g
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Have you come across Meaningness? That site has an interesting twist in this schema
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Replying to @HbdNrx
this is framed as about subcultures rather than bureaucracies but imo the real subject is "institutions" https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths …
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
That's awfully focused on music subcultures, though it's rather applicable to political ones like the alt-right.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @QuasLacrimas
I suppose we can apply it to institutions as well. Take NASA's early pioneers vs. today's managers
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Yes, that's what I was thinking. Some were in love with math/the stars, others couldn't be von Braun but loved the goal & supported
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I prefer thinking about it in terms of managerial incentives, though, and the iron law of bureaucracy statement does that more
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Replying to @realRusselJames @QuasLacrimas
I have to say, on a personal level in practice I'm not too keen on hierarchy
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