11 October 2019 - Parkinson’s Law

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According to Parkinson’s Law of bureaucratic growth, a bureaucracy grows at a constant rate whether or it does work or not. Rejoice! Eventually, wars will be fought entirely by generals, because there won’t be enough people left to fill lower ranks. A little later, we will achieve full utopia when everyone is a bureaucrat and no one has to work at all.

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