A big bureaucratic system is an inhuman system even though it's made up of humans.

You talk to a human in the system and you think they'll be reasonable because they're a human.

But in that role they're actually a cog in the machine.

The machine is perfectly content to do unreasonable things according to its internal logic.

If you fit with a machine, you will gradually graft more closely to it, losing your humanity.

LIke Bill Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean on Davy Jones' ship.

The only way to retain your humanity is to move away from the machine before it hollows you out.

But it's totally fine to go to another machine.

The problem is not being part of a machine.

The problem is never moving from one particular role within one particular machine, since you'll graft into it.

If you don't fit with the machine, then you will not change the machine, the machine will grind you to pieces.

If you don't fit with the machine you can turn off your agency and mesh with it, or you can leave.