> Less glib, this past year has taught me that a lot of companies are led by genuinely unintelligent people.

There's a reason that "meritocracy" was invented as a term to mock the state of things. It's a myth. It was always a myth. A joke.

The people selling the notion that the way things are is the result of a meritocracy is the secular Western equivalent of people using caste as a justification for shabby treatment of have-nots.