Claims / C-0RZ4N2WAPA
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A hierarchy works for whoever controls it, and when the controller is another supermind (voters over a government, stockholders over a company) control leaks to the people running it. Malone grants that officials, managers and staff often get much of what they want even when voters or stockholders do not want it. That leak is the agency cost that market-authorised treasuries are built to close.
Evidence 1 passage
groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone
But sometimes the politicians in a government, the managers in a company, or the workers in either kind of bureaucracy are able to get a lot of what they want even when it's not what the voters or stockholders really want.
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