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                         Saturday, September 11, 2010

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          Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any
Sections  bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of
          people":
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Manor          First, there will be those who are devoted to the
Home          goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated
              classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many
View          of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists
From          at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors
Chaos         in the former Soviet Union collective farming
Manor         administration.

Reader        Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the
Mail          organization itself. Examples are many of the
              administrators in the education system, many professors
Alt.Mail      of education, many teachers union officials, much of
              the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
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          The Iron Law states that in every case the second group
Special   will gain and keep control of the organization. It will
Reports   write the rules, and control promotions within the
          organization.
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          This has been stated in many places. Here is an early one.
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