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(Classic Episode) Samo Burja: Patterns of Destruction and Structures of Rebirth

From the New World

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What Is the Problem With Institutional Structures?

I think functional institutions fall out of functionality in a few ways. It is extremely difficult to even try to reform an existing organization from the inside. Organizational rot, I think, is sort of like the decomposition and the atrophy of one's functional systems. And then the ossification, the sclerotic rigor of a large bureaucracy rests in the fact that every process that is introduced for pragmatic reasons ends up having people attached to keeping it running. Once you introduce something as a new function, it just becomes very hard to get rid of.

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