@sun @Archivist @threalist the CoC group in particular is exactly that. they do not carry the competence of the line worker or the life burdens of the officer, but they demand the titled authority to do whatever they want.

taleb calls this intellectual-yet-idiots and they infect everything eventually. a whole class of people who abuse intellectualism to seem smart, while hiding their parasitic worthlessness. i don't know of a better way to phrase it yet.

a lot of people (esp in communist circles, being an ideology of the retail wage worker) discount what the officer's purpose actually is