I’m using the word ”bureaucrat” mostly as a derogatory term. The problem as I see it is actually a lack bureaucracy. It arises when you hire ”bureaucrats” and tell them ”you are now a general do-gooder who can do whatever you want, like an angel investor but with public money”. The systems that are bureaucratic (in the real sense of the word) actually work pretty well. Sweden owes a lot of its prosperity to a generous unemployment benefits system, for example.