Yeah this is one where it seems like as long as the delegator and task engine are both rational (aka manager and worker) it works fine.
The problems show up in 2 ways : when what the organization is itself incentived by is misaligned with the needs of the host society, or when the incomplete bookkeeping at a layer or corruption or indifference creates inefficiencies.
For example prisons and courts are incentivized to have as many criminals needing sentencing and punishment as possible. While a host society would benefit if there were less actual crime and less members having to suffer through punishment.
But internal to itself a court system creating lots and lots of meaningless hearings (meaningless in that they are rigged to a known outcome or a random outcome that doesn’t depend on the inputs and thus a waste of everyone’s time) or a prison having lots of people kept barely alive through efficient frugality is correct for these institutions own goals.
Yeah this is one where it seems like as long as the delegator and task engine are both rational (aka manager and worker) it works fine.
The problems show up in 2 ways : when what the organization is itself incentived by is misaligned with the needs of the host society, or when the incomplete bookkeeping at a layer or corruption or indifference creates inefficiencies.
For example prisons and courts are incentivized to have as many criminals needing sentencing and punishment as possible. While a host society would benefit if there were less actual crime and less members having to suffer through punishment.
But internal to itself a court system creating lots and lots of meaningless hearings (meaningless in that they are rigged to a known outcome or a random outcome that doesn’t depend on the inputs and thus a waste of everyone’s time) or a prison having lots of people kept barely alive through efficient frugality is correct for these institutions own goals.