“I will say that as cities, governments, corporations — all organizations — get bigger, their actions are more likely to stray from their primary purpose.”
The people who start organizations are on a mission to accomplish something, say, X. As time goes on, they retire or age-out and the people they hired, who are just doing a job, not a “mission” take over. They hire people who are attracted to the power, money or prestige. Those people blend in with the “mission” early on, until they are running the show. Liberals slowly take over and subvert the organization to service their proposes. The Annenberg Foundation comes to mind. Annenberg left money to promote conservative causes, but a couple of decades later it’s promoting Barak Obama and his communist buddies in the Socialist Chicago school project, which even they admit failed. Then there’s the Catholic Church, which I don’t even recognize anymore. The FBI was probably a good idea, although the guy who started it hung on for a few decades too long and arguably went Loonie tunes. Organizations get to a certain size like Digital Equipment Corporation or even Microsoft, and they just get lost and die. Microsoft was once cutting edge. I’d argue it’s now a blunt instrument....a dead corporation walking. GM would have been much better off if they’d been allowed to declare bankruptcy rather than getting turned into a zombie company.
MSFT owns 49% of OpenAI ... so there’s that ...
“The people who start organizations are on a mission to accomplish something ...”
I agree. Maybe living things are the same way. Ultimately each one of them dies.