| Also see the current government federally and in some states in Australia, the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The union movements and 8 hour workday have strong roots here, and the members of the Labor Party have historically been union members/supporters, although that changed to more management types in the mid 2000s[0]. Although they still have strong ties to Logging/Trade Unions which have become such institutions themselves, particularly the state ALP factions. This mostly puts them in a position to protect each other, rather then their "members". There are other captured unions such as the SDA as well, which supposedly protects retail workers, but apparently is largely directed by the supermarket duopoly (Coles+Safeway). I think the comment above on Pournelle's Iron Law really shows the current social state of omnipresent regulatory/bureaucratic capture. The ancient Greek concept of Kyklos seems like the only kind of sociopolitical system that creates regular catalysts to shed such systems, Westminster[2] worked for a while but the aristocratic layers born from it are now clinging to the teet of its corpse. [0]: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/45...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyklos
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system |