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The dynamic of post-hoc governance where each problem produces a new rule to prevent recurrence, without removing existing rules or re-specifying the underlying decision space. Over time, rules accumulate faster than they can be interpreted, and compliance becomes a specialised profession rather than shared practice.
A bank's compliance manual grows from 200 to 2,000 pages over a decade as each audit finding produces new requirements, but the fundamental question 'what is this institution for?' remains unanswered.
Pre-Gov Section 3.2