Nice post.

There is some overlap between the growth complex model, the bureaucratic politics model, and Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy; basically though, we can say the the bureaucracy of an organization (meaning the folks in the bureaucracy) start directing the organization to better themselves, rather than the mission of the organization.

The third law of Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics asserts that:

The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.

From the link:

John Moore thinks the third law is almost right; it should read “assume that it is controlled by a cabal of the enemies of the stated purpose of that bureaucracy.”

Since politics basically means "who gets what", it's easy to see how this plays out on Steemit...BUT...

...the good thing is that Steemit is decentralized. While there are those who can use their individual strength (or combine their strengths) to work against the interest of the platform, we have also seen where other Whales have jumped in and fought those efforts . Part of the danger in the Iron Law is that the bureaucracy gains control through manipulating the organization through central control.

Much harder to do here!

Thanks for the discussion!