[ycombinete]

I strongly suspect that this is based on the size of the company. I've seen this over the shoulder of my corporate friends; but in small companies I think these kinds of people have a harder time hiding their negative attributes.

[leaflets2]

Yes, and for countries too: most large countries are controlled by psychopaths, eg Putin, Xi, Erdagon, Bolsonaro, Trump if the coup had succeeded (maybe next time).

Whilst smaller countries are more often somewhat well functioning democracies.

The more layers of power one has to climb to get to the top, the more beneficial it is to "be able to" happily manipulate, step on and destroy others