Jerry Pournelle is your Somebody, the discoverer of Iron Law of Bureaucracy 🙂 🗨 In any bureaucracy, people devoted to the benefit of bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals that bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and eventually are eliminated entirely. -- Also quite fits, the last of Robert Conquest’s 3 laws of politics ↓↓ 🗨 The behaviour of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.