One of the reasons bureaucracy keeps snowballing through modern history is the amount of new laws required to regulate technology. Think of the automobile and all the new laws that were needed to make sure people were safe from this threatening innovation. That is why law and capitalism seemingly have a love affair: that as technology and law increase proportionality, so do the profits for investors. Expansion gets easier, trade gets faster, people find themselves more at risk, needing to trust the engineers that design our great machines. Law is what holds it all together, the cement binding innovation to prosperity.
Another symptom is that as bureaucracy expands, the newest generation is less likely to listen to or follow the old one. Technology has a way of separating us from tradition, as do the laws it serves. Gradually, the older generation gets more oblivious to these advancements, and less likely to pass down beloved traditions, so that what we have are 15-20 year marketing cycles, appealing to each new generation, flowing through a barrage of innovations that only the upper class in the older generation profits from.
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