This creates a sort of government staffing perpetualmotionmachine, with agencies adding more and more headcount just to satisfy the demands of other government agencies.
This was the recently popular idea that a market leader can increase sales faster than it accumulates expenses, thus creating a turbocharged, perpetual-motion profit machine at least until the U.S. Justice Department decides to break it up.
Telecoms were going to carry workers along the information superhighway to the land of effortless wealth, and dotcoms promised to turn the stock market into a sort of perpetual-motion money-making machine at least until the Y2K bug brought the entire world to a crashing halt.