A beurocracy can go crazy, but for the most part it's fairly rare, and it tends to be more related to the external factors acting on the organization than anything else though internal culture and leadership also matters.
the notion that bureaucracies inevitably go insane is quite seductive, but the facts don't bear it out. Instead the important thing is how it's self correcting mechanism work, as the environment and policies change remains of old, ill though out and otherwise bad policies and procedures start to accumulate, there must be some way of correcting and removing these.
A good example of a bad bureaucracy is the TSA, which seems more concerned with kickbacks and expansions than anything else, and it is also a very young bureaucracy. Meanwhile the much older NIH works fairly well, whatever you may think of the policies it has been tasked with implementing. This would seem to tropedo your iron law argument quite nicely.
As for unions in america unions are quite bad, but that is a function of how hard they have had to fight. It kind of reminds me of those vicious sled dogs they raise in greenland, they do live a very brutal life and so they are ferocious and dangerous. In europe meanwhile the unions are much more able and willing to work with management since they didn't have to fight nearly as hard. As a result the system works much better, though it has it's own share of faults.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
the notion that bureaucracies inevitably go insane is quite seductive, but the facts don't bear it out. Instead the important thing is how it's self correcting mechanism work, as the environment and policies change remains of old, ill though out and otherwise bad policies and procedures start to accumulate, there must be some way of correcting and removing these.
A good example of a bad bureaucracy is the TSA, which seems more concerned with kickbacks and expansions than anything else, and it is also a very young bureaucracy. Meanwhile the much older NIH works fairly well, whatever you may think of the policies it has been tasked with implementing. This would seem to tropedo your iron law argument quite nicely.
As for unions in america unions are quite bad, but that is a function of how hard they have had to fight. It kind of reminds me of those vicious sled dogs they raise in greenland, they do live a very brutal life and so they are ferocious and dangerous. In europe meanwhile the unions are much more able and willing to work with management since they didn't have to fight nearly as hard. As a result the system works much better, though it has it's own share of faults.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."