Fascinating Study: Bureaucrats are not born lazy - they learn it at work.

That's the conclusion drawn from a survey of public sector workers in Germany, where laziness is cultural anathema.

I've always marveled at the attitudes of bureaucrats. It doesn't seem to matter whether they work for the feds, the state, or county. Most of them just don't seem to give a shit about the "regulated community" over which they rule with an iron fist.

If we can extrapolate the results of this study across countries and cultures, bureaucrats are not necessarily born, they are created and encouraged in their sloth by the government system that nurtures them.

It's based on data from 2004 and 2005, but I'm pretty sure it's representative of bureaucrats across the ages. Read more here:

[link to business.financialpost.com]