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Alien Anthropology

Bureaucracy of Failure

The (unwitting) yet structural necessity of unemployment in a self-preserving system. Long-term unemployment in Australia isn’t just a policy oversight—it’s a structural feature. Governments cycle through new programs, slogans, and initiatives, but the underlying machinery remains unchanged. It isn’t designed to solve the problem; it’s designed to administer it. To be more precise: the failure […]

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culture

B.S. (Bureaucracy Simulator) 2.0

Bureaucracy Simulator 2.0, in stores near you soon…

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culture

Inertia

If it has become (all too painfully) obvious that bureaucratic inertia and the endemic stagnation of administrative hierarchies everywhere is a global problem and everywhere apparent, this tells us something about the nature of the issue. That is not to say (as so many people do) “oh, that’s just the way it is everywhere” and […]

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culture

Illogical

The “why” is not always more important than the “how” when governance and bureaucracy at a large organisational or international scale is concerned…

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culture

Inertia

Systemic bureaucratic failures breed inertia and internal complexity within organisations…