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That isn't exactly the case. The size of the bureaucracy is every growing because the complexity of the engines that keep civilization afloat keep growing. Remember, the major powers of the Bronze Age had immense bureaucracies due to the fact that they need people to keep the food flowing. These...

The biggest problem is that to be frank, we don't pay the government enough and don't have enough people working the bureaucracy. It's a correlation that the better paid your civil servants are (and the less they're overworked), the less corrupt they'll be funnily enough.

No, it's the main job of the modern politician to stay in office and fuck all else outside of doing things that would make the former impossible (like, oh, insurrection or treason). This produces a stupidly short-sighted political framework... which causes the above to be seen.