I wonder if this has to do with the kind of workforce that infests these big corporations. In my freelancing stints in mega-corps, I often bump into a kind of incompetent and fearful employee, often replaceable contractors processing low value tasks, who’s only purpose in life is to mitigate their monumental risk of being thrown off into the dirt by the next reorg.

These people’s psychology is to claim competence in some higher kind of logic allegedly embedded in this spontaneously emergent bureaucracy. Of course it’s just smoke and mirrors, there is no logic nor understanding. None