Idk if it's maliciousness as much as incompetence at this point. You ever see the movie "Brazil"? I think it's more accurate than Animal Farm or 1984.
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It might seem like incompetence at the leaf nodes, but somehow the system always finds solutions for its own. You can use AI to dissolve some of the bullshit though. There are often poorly documented / understood ways to leverage the rules
I'm a big fan of Good Will Hunting. It's kind of cheesy, but you can also see the broad strokes of Matt Damon's neighbor and substitute father figure, historian and civil rights activist Howard Zinn
