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“It is one of the defining features of any bureaucracy that those who staff it are selected by formal, impersonal criteria. Most often, some kind of test. That is, bureaucrats are not, say, elected like politicians. But neither should they get the job just because they are someone's cousin. In theory, they are meritocracies. In fact, everyone knows that the system is compromised in a thousand different ways. Many of the staff are, in fact, there just because they are someone's cousin. And everybody knows it.”

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