This reminds me of a work of fiction I’m (intermittently) working on, which features a number of colonial overseers in a vast galactic empire, who’re so overwhelmingly dimwitted that the main character speculates that it’s as if the colonial power is assigning people with abilities in accordance with the importance of their posts, so the really unimportant colonies receive overseers who’re commensurately incompetent.
This reminds me of a work of fiction I’m (intermittently) working on, which features a number of colonial overseers in a vast galactic empire, who’re so overwhelmingly dimwitted that the main character speculates that it’s as if the colonial power is assigning people with abilities in accordance with the importance of their posts, so the really unimportant colonies receive overseers who’re commensurately incompetent.