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The Mathematical Reason on Why Incompetence Rules the World

Imagine a grand, towering organization, a bustling hive of activity where brilliance is rewarded, and hard work recognized. Sounds ideal, doesn’t it? Now, picture a subtle, almost imperceptible force at play within this very structure, a silent algorithm diligently promoting individuals up the ladder, not towards greater achievement, but towards an inevitable, almost comical, state of inadequacy. For decades, we’ve chuckled at the idea, but what if this wasn’t just a cynical joke, but a fundamental truth about how our hierarchies actually function?

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