> The endgame is that we're all government employees in a Dilbertesque hell.
I once heard about the British Colonial Office. The time when it had the most employees was precisely the time when it was dissolved because Britain did not have colonies anymore. They were all just shuffling papers around all day.
I sadly don't have a source for that. Does anyone have a link, by any chance?
"A glance at the figures shows that the staff totals represent automatic stages in an inevitable increase. And this increase, while related to that observed in other departments, has nothing to do with the size - or even the existence - of the Empire."
What I don't know is where Parkinson got his own figures from. Some of them are cited in the article, but I think not this one.
I once heard about the British Colonial Office. The time when it had the most employees was precisely the time when it was dissolved because Britain did not have colonies anymore. They were all just shuffling papers around all day.
I sadly don't have a source for that. Does anyone have a link, by any chance?