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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by fredrikholm on Friday February 10, 2023 @03:44AM (#34737201)
> Every company I've worked for has had some core group of people who cared about doing good work and doing the right thing... but they're actually operating adversarially in a way that collects the most rewards with the least effort.

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy! The people who game the system eventually move to further enforce the system (for their own benefit), at the expense of the purpose the for which the system was first put in place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_la...

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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by gardenhedge on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:07AM (#34737327)
I wonder if this correlates to when the OG founders leave or are kicked out
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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by dgb23 on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:36AM (#34741004)
Great find!

It seems like this is related to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

And this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

It's almost as if you mix those two things together, you get Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

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