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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

Book by David Graeber · 1 quotes · Bureaucracy, Privilege, Structural Violence

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“There is a whole school of thought that holds bureaucracy tends to expand according to a kind of perverse but inescapable inner logic. The argument runs as follows: if you create a bureaucratic structure to deal with some problem, that structure will invariably end up creating other problems that seem as if they, too, can only be solved by bureaucratic means. In universities, this is sometimes informally referred to as the "creating committees to deal with the problem of too many committees" problem.”

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