The way we have been ranking/sorting people to give them "better" jobs with more responsibility and better pay is completely broken, open to cheating/abuse/gami

The way we have been ranking/sorting people to give them "better" jobs with more responsibility and better pay is completely broken, open to cheating/abuse/gaming. The result is that we promoted a large cohort of people with little to no merit. Now since it was all fake in the first place they cannot contribute meaningfully and the ones who could have are laughing their ass doing things for themselves instead of a meritless system. This is just like before most revolutions where somehow a group of people found a way to enslave the others to extract most of the value they produce while doing nothing of value themselves and even worse have behaviors/ideas/domination fetish that makes everything works less efficiently than it should...