One day I'll get around to reading/watching this stuff... while listening to someone talk about bureaucracy's it occurred to me that the boomer gen has built bureaucratic towers to protect their power in the long term. They can't promote the most competent because it would challenge their position, so they keep around barely competent sociopathic sycophants, while those who may have replaced them have gone on to specialize and succeed in outher fields. The barley competent implicit job in many ways is protect the alfalfas position and that is their specialty, the tools they developed are the tools they will use once they inherit the position they are incompetent for. They can't do the job they inherit, and there is no one to replace the compatant, so they just do the thing they are good at. Using powerful tools to hide their incompetence while looting as long as possible.