The entire workforce ends up being an 80/20 split, where 20% of the employees do 80% of the work, and the bloat above the field level does absolutely nothing but waste time, create drama, and burn the organization to the ground.

Oh, but of course, this is never talked about though. It's like the cursed words you aren't allowed to speak. You can't point out how you've got a fucking geologist who doesn't even know geology, who is spending their time pursuing things like building powerpoint presentations about the sink in the break room not being clean enough for their liking.

Nothing is ever done about these people. They're just allowed to keep their jobs, and more often than not, they get promoted up and out to be "someone else's problem".

We're breeding incompetence and laziness in the business world now, where if you're utterly useless, you get rewarded for it.

If you're useful and can perform your job, you're held back and get stuck in the position you're in because you're the only one of 100 people who can actually do the fucking job.

A lot of people are wising up to this, too. The guys who know how to do the job, are starting to STOP doing the job, and are just skating by like the rest.

This is exactly why the USSR's economy failed so hard - rewarding ideology over competence. Then the few actual producers adopt the strategy for themselves; "We'll keep pretending to work as long as they keep pretending to pay us".