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Maybe. but existance of leaders like Gerhard Schröder displays a different story.

(he is sitting on russian gas companies’ boards, after heavily going against nuclear). No shit the leaders failed the country for their own gains, seems like.

The incompetent and the corrupt and more often than not the same person.

They don't know what the right answer is, but they know the answer that gets them paid.

I think you just made a statement that should be repeated often and attributed to you. Barrenko’s corallary or something. Somebody help me with the name. I want see this used and a Wikipedia entry on it

Be careful. Incompetence is an almost infinite sink for blame, and it's easy to misattributed to it what really belongs somewhere else.

Incompetence doesn't have a bias. Malice does.

More to the point, Hanlon's Razor is usually an excuse to do nothing, which is a mistake.

It's better to assume that people intend the likely outcome of their actions. If they want to claim stupidity/incompetence as a defene, that's on them.