Corporate bureaucracies can absolutely be just as terrible. But the problem isn't that a bureaucracy exists, it's that there is a law requiring the approval of a specific bureaucracy.

If a corporate bureaucracy is slow and inefficient, that sucks, but it creates an opportunity for somebody else to be less slow and less inefficient. If a government bureaucracy is slow and inefficient, can you start your own and go into competition with them?

- Google: 100,000

- Procter and Gamble: 100,000

- GlaxoSmithKline: 100,000

(Weird how the figures for the first three random companies I looked up are so close...)

- Health and Human Services: 80,000

- Uber: 20,000

- FDA: 15,000

- Sanofi Pasteur (working on coronavirus vaccine): 15,000

- CDC: 10,000