Why bureaucratic system fail?

 Few political mavericks are more controversial than Dominic Cummings. To understand him better watch a Spectator TV episode - recently posted on YouTube about Open AI. His hypothesis is that modern advanced economies like the US, UK and other G7 countries are sclerotic, moribund and moreover pathological inert to change. This underlying basic assumption is written about in 1915 by the eminent sociologist Robert Michels, in Political Parties. His seminal book unpicks the thinking and is a touchstone theory. In the later part of the book he explains the driving force at work to create - the iron law of oligarchy. Anyone today seeking to know why bureaucratic system fail - should read this book. They basically need to perpetuate themselves. The people in these organisations are not there to change the world, but enhance their own survival and pensions. In Britain they are motivated to receive in the long term - a knighthood, a place in the House of Lords or other gong. They don’t want to rock the establishment boat - as this will cause confusion and controversy. They are more concerned about meeting the monarch than changing his/her social order. That’s why they never change the world and bureaucracy continues to murder original thinking.