[RugnirViking]

But the idea that that is intentionally done is the leap, right? In my model of the world, it's very easy to believe how overlapping & duplicate programmes, middleman corruption, and ineffective programs can cause this without meaning to, rather than some deliberate attempt to engineer the morass of beuracracy.

[Swizec]

I didn't say it was intentional, it's the result of millions of little decisions that all make total sense in isolation.