Law of averages, there are lots of incompetent people. Our social structures (and humans themselves) are atrocious selectors for competence. We also notice/rem

Law of averages, there are lots of incompetent people. Our social structures (and humans themselves) are atrocious selectors for competence. We also notice/remember/celebrate (and attribute to competence rather than happenstance) the people at right place, right time and people at wrong place, wrong time. While ignoring the vast numbers of actually mildly competent and mildly incompetent people in the middle of the bell curve.