The claim above is that empires are below the threshold where everything runs on personal trust, not that governmental administration is fundamentally different from other kinds of administration.
> But efficiency is required for commercial enterprises. It is not enough to collect money and let your subordinates enrich themselves. You want to track all the money and not let your subordinates cheat the enterprise to their personal profit.
The first two sentences are obviously false; you want to track all the money, but you have no particular need to do so as long as some of the money is making its way to you.
> But efficiency is required for commercial enterprises. It is not enough to collect money and let your subordinates enrich themselves. You want to track all the money and not let your subordinates cheat the enterprise to their personal profit.
The first two sentences are obviously false; you want to track all the money, but you have no particular need to do so as long as some of the money is making its way to you.