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Comment by AnthonyMouse

Structural constraints aren't exclusively a problem because they enable corruption. There can be incompetence without malice. All it takes is for someone to be well-intentioned but incorrect, or for the system to allocate rulemaking authority to someone without the information necessary to make the best decision.

The classic example is a large hierarchical organization where the line workers have knowledge of the process but no management competence and correspondingly don't know what information is even relevant to pass up the chain, and the top brass have management training but have been put in charge of so many people that they don't have the bandwidth to know what's actually happening on the ground.

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