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Why bureaucracies may preserve the problems they fight

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Solving the issue means losing the budget. Institutional entities possess a biological instinct to endure, meaning agencies designed to eliminate a specific societal flaw will subconsciously maintain that exact flaw to ensure their funding, salaries, and sheer administrative existence never evaporate.

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