[ryanmarsh]

This is the default for large human organizations. The differences are merely shades of the same color.

Also, the purpose of any bureaucracy is self preservation.

The government is a complex adaptive system with almost no external signaling from it's environment. It's an extreme example of how large companies behave when they have no external pressures (competition).

Every system is perfectly designed to produce the results that it produces. I know gov't waste is appalling but you should expect it until selection pressures are applied from the outside. Contrast NASA 1969 vs. 1986 and you'll get what I mean.