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I had heard of "The Peter Principle" and I was familiar with the concept of people being promoted to the level of their incompetence, but I wouldn't have been able to tell you that the former was the name of the latter. I'll have to read more about it. But to the extent that it seems to be a feature of hierarchical systems generally I'm not sure it would be more or less common in a more communal culture unless heirarchy was done away with entirely. Then again I haven't slept much the past few days and I am not a doctor, so I might just be rambling.