In 1987, the software company Infocom released a game called Bureaucracy, scripted by the science-fiction writer Douglas Adams. In the game, a character struggles to keep her blood pressure low enough to avoid a heart attack while changing her address and dealing with a large, impersonal, and inefficient bureaucracy. Although the game is meant to be humorous, what element of Bureaucracy would be familiar to Max Weber?

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The impersonal nature of bureaucracy is the element that would be familiar to Max Weber, who developed the concept of the "iron cage" of bureaucracy as a system characterized by rationalization, efficiency, and impersonality.

In 1987, the Software Company Infocom Released a Game Called