The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and todays employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[H]istory cannot lend itself to experimentation. But... is potent enough... to eventually bury the bad guy. Bad trades catch up with you... Mathematicians of probability give that a... name: . [R]oughly... properties of a very... long sample path would be similar to the Monte Carlo properties of an average of shorter ones. ...Those unlucky... in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool... would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each ...would revert to his long-term properties.

A half-man (or, rather, half-person) is not someone who does not have an opinion, just someone who does not take risks for it.

Most problems in the world are perpetuated by bureaucrats (ignorant of complex systems) with no "trying to help". Put the State Department on sabbatical & see how peace will organically erupt. Also the past was more peaceful than claimed.