Makes me think of this timeless and excellent quote by Oscar Wilde:

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

BurningFrog 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Great sounding quotes of unclear origin are usually attributed to Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, or a few others.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Misquotations

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antonvs 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

*Commonly attributed to Oscar Wilde. There doesn't appear to be any definitive source for it.

The quote actually reads like a summary of Parkinson's Law, that bureaucracies inherently tend to grow because officials create work for each other another and seek to increase their numbers. But the exact quote doesn't appear in Parkinson's original essay. Quote from that essay:

"Factor 1: An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals; and

Factor 2: Officials make work for each other."

-- https://archive.org/details/parkinsons-law-the-economist

	▲	glitchc 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I suggest reading the book if you can get your hands on a copy. It's a short and highly entertaining read: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/parkinsons-law_c-northcote-par...