The Broken Machinery
I always thought that it was one of the glaring flaws of capitalism that while the dullest minds are paid top dollar to be ground like a stone in a tumbler into an even duller mind, the sharpest minds are paid a fraction of what they spent to be sharpened... and now I find out that the sharpening process apparently makes them more fragile to boot.
Honestly, I'm astonished we haven't gone extinct as a species out of sheer incompetence by this point.