202504051616 Status: #idea Tags: #bureaucracy #institutions #government # Bureaucracies should be dismantled once their function is completed Bureaucracies have a tendency to expand their powers beyond what their creator intended. Members of the bureaucracy are incentivized to be as opaque as possible, as the lack of transparency enables senior members of the bureaucracy to push their own agendas without being detected. Moreover, once the creator of the bureaucracy dies or is deposed, there is generally no one left with enough knowledge or power to completely control the bureaucracy. As such, in order to avoid institutional ossification, it is imperative to have a clearly-defined end goal for the bureaucracy which, one the goal has been completed, results in the dismantling of the bureaucracy. ## Related Ideas - [[Committees give the appearance of prudence while serving as a shield for accountability]] - [[Bureaucracies can be useful to outsource tasks to less competent individuals]] - [[Great institutions require planning and insight from the beginning]] - [[Maintaining functional institutions requires skill succession and power succession]] - [[Creative destruction is required because we haven't solved the succession problem]] - [[Political systems decay because they lack a system of rejuvenation]] --- # References [[Great Founder Theory]]