{"id":51130,"date":"2024-01-21T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=51130"},"modified":"2024-01-20T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T15:19:55","slug":"qotd-the-life-cycle-of-bureaucracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/01\/21\/qotd-the-life-cycle-of-bureaucracies\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The life-cycle of bureaucracies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8230; a large bureaucracy will, in approximately 100 percent of cases, become extremely wasteful, and essentially corrupt. It will perpetuate the &#8220;problem&#8221; that it was founded to solve, and at its most creative, invent new and quite imaginative evils. It will become a vested interest \u2014 an &#8220;economic player&#8221; in its own right \u2014 and spread, like a cancer, well beyond the flesh it first inhabited. Any attempt to restrain it will then engender new bureaucracies. The idea of a &#8220;humane&#8221; bureaucracy is a contradiction of terms. There is no such thing.<\/p>\n<p>Gentle reader must understand that I am not speaking only of &#8220;guvmint&#8221;, but of bureaucracy, at large. The thing is not necessarily a government department. Any big corporation will quickly show symptoms. The only difference between &#8220;public&#8221; and &#8220;private&#8221; is in longevity. A private bureaucracy will kill its host, but thanks to the power of taxation, a public bureaucracy can be long sustained. It is also backed by law and police action, which even today is more effective than mere pointless rules and regulations. The latter, however, are more nimble in expansion, and prepare the ground for law \u2014 the full spiritual stasis.<\/p>\n<p>David Warren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/2019\/09\/17\/austrian-schoolboy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Austrian schoolboy&#8221;, <em>Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2019-09-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a large bureaucracy will, in approximately 100 percent of cases, become extremely wasteful, and essentially corrupt. It will perpetuate the &#8220;problem&#8221; that it was founded to solve, and at its most creative, invent new and quite imaginative evils. It will become a vested interest \u2014 an &#8220;economic player&#8221; in its own right \u2014 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,831,84,41],"tags":[409,755],"class_list":["post-51130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-government","category-quotations","tag-corporations","tag-incentives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-diG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86869,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51130\/revisions\/86869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}