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Keeping it simple is knowing that people don't get to such high places via stupidity.


I've yet to gain access to a level of "high place" at which the distribution of competence and intelligence is a ton different from a median public high school classroom. It's been one of the more disturbing discoveries of my adult life, that every time I get insight into one of these it's barely better than anything else on that front, and usually worse in the ethics and trustworthiness department.


History is full of stupid people in high positions.


If you've worked for any company for about a day or two, you'd know plenty of stupid people get to high positions.




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