When you use characteristics other than competence to hire and promote, you get people with characteristics other than competence in control.
IMHO, it’s widespread, systemic incompetence. Used to be confined to government, the media, and academia, but now it’s spreading into every bit of society. It’s only going to get worse.
Things will get a LOT better when the systemically racist white men are pushed aside and the Woke people get all the jobs. Trust me on this.
These disasters sure seemed to start about 18 years after the government schools started dumbing down the kids.
The bean counters only care about the next quarter, not the long run, not safety, not quality control.
They are technologically illiterate, so have no clue of the havoc they are causing.
Throw in some affirmative action hires on top of this, and what could possibly go wrong?