by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
A further characteristic of officialism is its extravagance. In its chief departments … it employs far more officers than are needed, and pays some of the useless ones exorbitantly … These public agencies are subject to no such influence as that which obliges private...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
Officialism is stupid. Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
Daily are new trades and new companies established, if they serve some existing public want, they take root and grow. If they do not, they die of inanition. It needs no agitation, no act of Parliament, to put them down. As with all natural organizations, if there is...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
Officialism is habitually slow. When non-governmental agencies are dilatory, the public has its remedy: it ceases to employ them and soon finds quicker ones. Under this discipline all private bodies are taught promptness … For delays in State-departments there is no...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
If the power of government be very extensive, and the subjects of it have, consequently, little power over their own actions, that government is tyrannical, and oppressive; whether, with respect to its form, it be a monarchy, an aristocracy, or even a republic....
