I mean, I'm with you.

I read this:

If you had the status that you actually merited you would be, under the best possible circumstances, a lower-middle manager and even then after years of drudgery and promotion only because they couldn't find anyone else for the job.

And I immediately think of how people who have been promoted above their competence, can't threaten their bosses because they are entirely insecure in their position and reliant on their bosses to cover for them. You see diversity hires in this situation and it's like seeing turtles on fenceposts: you know that they didn't get there on their own, and they have no graceful way down. They were set there to be reliant minions of the person who set them there for the sake of ideologically capturing the institution.

Kakistocracy in action.