Eli5: What exactly is bureaucracy?

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I’ve googled it and I’ve read the definition but I still have no idea what it actually is and how it affects a person, particularly in their day to day lives

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Rules. That’s it.
Imagine a world with no rules. People could drive on your yard, walk into your house, take food from the grocery, literally anything?
So in order to build a polite society where we can all get along, people came up with some rules. Don’t take my stuff, let’s all drive on the same side of the road, etc.
You keep growing that idea until you have a government, and teams of people dedicated to making those rules, and other teams to enforce those rules, then other groups to change the rules!
Sit still in class and learn! Rules!

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