>>I've only seen that kind of nonsense in government

In a private corporation, for a while I had the task of managing several sons and grandsons of the largest shareholder.

The salary of each exceeded mine (which was pretty good) several times and the sum of their IQ's was below what you'd expect from one normal person.
He had no illusions. As he put it to me privately "keep their damage at a minimum."

Governments are bad, but they have no monopoly on ineptitude.