Bureaucracy is not like cancer. Bureaucracy is cancer. It is the malignant cancer that infests society. Both the government and the private sector alike. It is both a form of parasitism as useless paper tossers perform useless work for high pay, sucking out taxpayer money and company resources alike.

But it is also cancerous in the sense that it only serves it’s own interests, and it’s only purpose is to survive and grow, exactly like cancer. At least grow until it consumes the host entirely and implodes.

It is the so called “Iron Law of Bureaucracy”, which states that every single organization that is setup, initially for a “greater goal”, in the end it distances itself from it’s original purpose and it starts to engage in protectionist-expansionist behavior, only loyal to itself.

So once a bureaucracy is setup, you can’t get rid of it anymore, just like you can’t get rid of cancer once it appears. The only way to get rid of a bureaucracy is to absolutely shut it down, leave only a small part alive and it grows back, just like cancer.

If you imagine the Government as a beast described by Nietzche, then the Bureaucrat is the parasite in the guts of the beast. The Government constantly pillages and eats taxes and liberties, while the parasite inside the guts of the Government constantly demands for more and more resources.

Government Bureaucracy

The Government normally would just only eat enough taxes to survive, which is easily demonstrated during the Middle Ages when the taxes were pretty much constant, just enough was collected for the King to ensure his dominance and to keep his nobles and generals content.

But once the Bureaucrat appeared, the Government started to Departmentalize itself, and the Departments became semi-independent, having a free range and a free hand to do anything in the field they were authorized to control.

So for every field and industry a Government Department or Ministry was created to head over that field, having a free range over it. This is the initial cabinet of the executive branch.

Then the Department started growing and started creating sub-departments, other entities and other Government Agencies under the jurisdiction of the cabinet Department.

And every single sub-department has it’s different offices, each bureaucrat’s goal is just to expand it’s own influence, and come up with any justification just to do so.

Even something as trivial as a Post Office, has a clear goal to expand itself, even if it’s obsolete it doesn’t give up itself. For many years the only way to communicate was to send letters through them or send packages through them, paying not just the transportation costs, but also an extra stamp tax, because why not?

If you want to send, or certify documents through a notary or work with paper financial assets like trading physical stocks, you still have to pay a Stamp Tax, to the Post Office? Why? Because they said so.

So even something like the Post Office, which sounds benign, is just a complete cancer on society. Just pay extra taxes for nothing really.

And the Post Office is the least of our worries when it comes to the Big Government. Every other Department works like this, it’s just that they are a thousand times worse.

Why do you think your taxes are through the roof? It’s because these parasitic creatures are everywhere chipping off every bit of resource they can.

And then when they don’t get enough resources, or they do, but they think they ought to deserve more, then they turn to extra-judicial resource gathering like Civil Asset Forfeiture:

Literally most of the forfeited funds go directly to fund Police Departments in the US:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6hqcbc/listen_to_a_police_chief_say_that_police_will/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-wish-list-when-deciding-which-assets-to-seize.html
• https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/363102433/police-can-seize-and-sell-assets-even-when-the-owner-broke-no-law
• https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6gsi3g/the_deas_warrantless_cash_grab_the_dea_seized_a/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/77vqsm/the_police_just_fked_my_life_alabamians_outraged/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/DescentIntoTyranny/comments/6zdu28/police_officer_uses_civil_forfeiture_to_take_all/

It’s obvious:

• “If you don’t give us enough taxes, we will steal it for ourselves” - type of mentality

Corporate Bureaucracy

Corporate bureaucracy is not as bad as the Government one since the money is not funneled away from taxes and there is no violence used to gather it extra-judicially, but it’s still a heavy burden on the economy, the business itself and on the clients.

Almost all major businesses are now bureaucratized, and they are suffering from it, but they don’t care because they are “too big to fail”.

The CEO can’t run a big company alone, so he appoints sub-managers, and they in return have their own staff and sub-sub-managers themselves.

Depending how the business is structured, especially if it’s international, it can have a very complex governance scheme, where every sub-manager has his own department.

And needless to say the amount of useless people in these departments is staggering especially since the lower manager doesn’t really give a damn about the company anymore but just about his own power and influence, and to expand that he will not be shy with his resources.

For instance a low-manager will hire 100 extra useless people which will cost a lot of money and will justify this as it’s only used to expand the business and thus generate more profit.

But he doesn’t quantify the profitability of each new employee and he might deceive his superiors about their usefulness, but he enjoys his own comfortable ruling position.

The more layered the corporation is, the less the lower managers care about the business itself. So you have a massive conflict of interest and this is why most big businesses fail or run slowly.

And the service quality is lowered too, suddenly the clients have to fill out a lot of paperwork in order to interact with the business instead of making it smooth.

It is what it is, in fact a corporation is not even a private company anymore, the board members are elected, thus they are a permanent bureaucracy, detached from the shareholder’s interests.

And once you setup a permanent bureaucracy, you can’t get rid of it anymore can you? Most of the board members have little or no share in the company, they are just external bureaucrats hired to oversee the business.

Conclusion

Bureaucracy has no use just as a cancer has no use. But it has a goal to grow, and grow, until either it or the host is destroyed.

The Bureaucracy overtakes the economy, and it implodes is under the heavy regulatory and tax burden, causing massive suffering and poverty, while the bureaucrats enrich themselves on other people’s misery.

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