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Organizations such as countries, corporations and Ancient Conspiracies need a lot of talented people in order to function. Rather than expending resources to find and train "new" experts, a simpler method is to recruit your competitors' employees. After all, if you were offered a clearly better job (however you define that), you'd probably take it, right? Especially if your current situation is unpleasant. This can easily result in one of the organizations continually sliding backwards. They lose some talented and competent personnel, and thus become less talented and competent overall, which makes things harder on their remaining personnel, which makes said personnel want to leave even more, and the cycle continues... This is the phenomenon called "brain drain". It's quite widespread in Real Life, as the Other Wiki can testify. In a way, Brain Drain is the opposite of The Peter Principle. However, these are opposites that can happily coexist and help each other make life hell for those who remain: The talented move on elsewhere, while the less talented become Pointy Haired Bosses in positions they are incompetent for, which makes things even harder for their subordinates and feeds into the cycle. In individual cases, the Peter Principle can also be used to subvert Brain Drain if it turns out that a high-ranking "drained" guy wasn't so "brainy" after all. Not to be confused with Stupidity-Inducing Attack, which is about making an individual person dumber. Examples |
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