Correct. I see people complain about “government bureaucracy” fairly frequently — and it’s a private company they’re carping about. And then some claim the bureaucratic whirlwind is due to “regulations” when the supposedly-responsible regulations haven’t changed for 30, 40, or 50+ years.

No, it’s just that when bureaucracy can increase it does. Especially when it can be used to strategically extract more money from you in the now-dominant scam economy.