Why is it so easy to believe that there are incompetent fools in power who encourage tech debt and bureaucracy even though it's obviously bad for the business,

Why is it so easy to believe that there are incompetent fools in power who encourage tech debt and bureaucracy even though it's obviously bad for the business, and so hard to believe there are incompetent fools in power who are suspicious of people who don't look or act like them even though it's obviously bad for the business?