David_Gerard comments on Subsuming Purpose, Part 1 - Less Wrong
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As a keen charity watcher (well, sometimes), much of this strikes me as reasonably obvious. This suggests that there is already a name for this. This reads like a good start to something longer.
Jerry Pournelle calls it "The Iron Law of Bureaucracy".
I mean more specifically this mechanism :-)