Price's Law stands no matter what. The square root of the number of people do HALF the work. In this case, that means that 316 people at the DOJ do half the work. And of those 316, 17 do half THAT work. And of that 17, 4 do half that work. Very quickly you see how few do all the work.

All large bodies corrupt and crumble for this reason. The overhead is too expensive for the amount of productive work being done. Then, people are randomly let go, and many of the most productive who have prospects elsewhere, leave. What we're left with is bloat. Useless bloat.

Price's Law stands no matter what. The square root of the number of people do HALF the work. In this case, that means that 10,000 people at the DOJ do half the work. And of those 10,000, 100 do half THAT work. And of that 100, 10 do half that work.

All large bodies corrupt and crumble for this reason. The overhead is too expensive for the amount of productive work being done. Then, people are randomly let go, and many of the most productive who have prospects elsewhere, leave. What we're left with is bloat. Useless bloat.