“It turns out that would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes w ideological true believers, offer extreme enticements or impose draconian punishments in order to make successful power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated & mediocre.”
Matthew Kavanagh
New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.
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