Trump is a symptom, not a cause. One of probably hundreds of mediocre failsons gifted unbelievable wealth in the birth lottery who’s greatest achievement in life was managing to not lose all of it to his awful business acumen and utter refusal to listen to a single living person.

Every industry’s leadership is full of trumps, many more palatable personally, many far better spoken, many even with better politics but none fundamentally are any actually better for society. They don’t understand their company, the products it makes, they have utterly no care for anything besides the quarterly stock price and their lack of care costs real people their jobs and ruins the products we use every day.

And, they are why every company is ripping the copper out of its own walls instead of actually building a business that will last.

Spot on! I worked with execs at a FAANG, they don't have the foggiest idea what they are doing! Extraordinarily dumb, and they get all their 'information' and take decisions from gatekeeping orgs which are super incompetent. This is the one org where incompetency is a super weapon. These orgs don't take competent people, because they won't be loyal to you and do your bidding. And worse, if the execs realize there is a competent person, they will come straight you, bypassing the gatekeeping hierarchy.