All Authoritarian systems fundamentally operate like this. It's a key flaw within them.

This is why meritocracy is declared to be fascist by the Left.

"To the workers of the world."

Fundamentally, the Sociopaths rise to the top given the toxic regime of the organization itself, and then they intentionally promote people who can never threaten them, and will be dependent upon them. This is also why vice is incentivized. Vices are easy to make people dependent upon you, because it's easy to make yourself the only dispenser of that vice, and the enforcement against that vice is defined solely through you.

The sociopath surrounds himself with loyalists who are dependent on him by either vice, incompetence, or preferably both. It's not an accident. He has to.

All Authoritarian systems fundamentally operate like this. It's a key flaw within them.

This is why meritocracy is declared to be fascist by the Left.

To the workers of the world.