“Dumb” is the wrong descriptor. If you’ve ever worked in a politicized environment, it’s easy to observe spectacularly talented people who are uniquely unqualified to do whatever they are doing. Those are usually good at something else, and those skills generally allow them to avoid consequences for their incompetence, unless they get unlucky.

Another common scenario you see in business is when attorneys get put in charge of things, or talented salesmen get put into non-sales executive jobs.

"Researchers identify a new personality construct that describes the tendency to see oneself as a victim"

https://www.psypost.org/2020/12/researchers-identify-a-new-p...

They say these anti social personality disorders only represent 1-2% of society, but I always try to look at the results of a society to infer the true percentage.

I’d say Nazi Germany had a particular anti social personality disorder at scale, over 50%.

I’ll let you guys infer where everyone else is at now days.

(...I like both, merry Christmas)