Shirky Principle

From Clay Shirky: In April 2010, Kevin Kelly cited the phrase "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution", and called it the "Shirky Principle", as the phrasing reminded him of the clarity of the Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky#Shirky_principle

• original source: "The Collapse of Complex Business Models" (orig link, i-archive, gwern snap)