Corporate politics expand to take all available space over time.

Corporate politics don't arise because of human foibles; they arise due to the game theoretic edge that an entity gets from playing incrementally more politics than their peers.

Everyone gets an edge, so everyone is incentivized to play politics.

That then sets the baseline amount of politics up, and the cycle repeats, and continues compounding.

If you don't play as much politics as your peers, you're likely to be knocked out of the game by more political players.

The only thing that contains the expansion of politics is the ground truthed success of the company in the wild.

Imagine if you had a swarm of LLM-backed agents in a company.

They could conceivably absorb infinite energy, all being consumed playing a self-referential loop of corporate politics!