If you are useful but not valued all that creates is extreme resentment. Competence, especially when objective and irrefutable but not accompanied by what are

If you are useful but not valued all that creates is extreme resentment. Competence, especially when objective and irrefutable but not accompanied by what are assumed to be mandatory associated traits (see halo effect) is seen as an affront to nature and creates a very intense sense of dissonance and injustice that prompts corrective measures, usually in the form of scapegoating.