Re:We need more goat sacrifices
by wduquette on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:16PM
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Every government initiative of this sort either creates a new bureaucracy or bolsters an older one, which brings the Iron Law of Bureaucracy into play: whatever its original goal, every bureaucracy ultimately exists to perpetuate itself.
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Also the more qualifications and requirements you add to your social programs, the more bureaucracy is required to process, document, and enforce those qualifications.
For example, if you implement a free lunch program for all public school students in a state, you actually get to subtract out the amount of money that each school district spends dealing with reduced and free lunch program qualifications for a subset of students, all of the paperwork involved in maintaining that list, and the system that manages their account balances at the cafeteria register.