| Lesson 4: Bureaucracy Must Grow. |
Power is the ability to do what we want and have what we want. People have a natural instinct to want to
increase power (ambition), even when our wants are few. In the private sector, we measure power with
money. Money is earned through profit. Profit is grown by shrinking cost and growing a customer base.
Thus, the standard business model tends to be pyramid-shaped.
Government can't grow it's base, except through war and conquest. A peaceful government already has a
100% market share. Therefore, people in government only have three ways to increase their power:
1. Increase the size of their budgets.
2. Increase the number of people who work under them.
3. Increase their political power with more rules and regulations.
Government must therefore expand from the middle, with an ever-increasing, costly bureaucracy. In
business, a need creates a job. In government, the job gets made first, then the bureaucrat has to find
something to do. What they do is make rules and forms and when they're finished, they make new ones.
There isn't much else for a bureaucrat to do.
Next Lesson: Jobs Don't Make Money
increase power (ambition), even when our wants are few. In the private sector, we measure power with
money. Money is earned through profit. Profit is grown by shrinking cost and growing a customer base.
Thus, the standard business model tends to be pyramid-shaped.
Government can't grow it's base, except through war and conquest. A peaceful government already has a
100% market share. Therefore, people in government only have three ways to increase their power:
1. Increase the size of their budgets.
2. Increase the number of people who work under them.
3. Increase their political power with more rules and regulations.
Government must therefore expand from the middle, with an ever-increasing, costly bureaucracy. In
business, a need creates a job. In government, the job gets made first, then the bureaucrat has to find
something to do. What they do is make rules and forms and when they're finished, they make new ones.
There isn't much else for a bureaucrat to do.
Next Lesson: Jobs Don't Make Money