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Groups such as countries, corporations and [[Ancient Conspiracy|Ancient Conspiracies]] need a lot of talented people in order to function. One way to get that is to recruit from each other. This can easily result in one of them just keep sliding backwards, losing their competent and talented people to others and thus becoming less and less competent and talented as a group.
This phenomenon is quite widespread in [[Real Life]], as [
In a way,
In individual cases, [[The Peter Principle]] can also be used to subvert
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' this is {{spoiler|John Galt's major plan: to drain ALL OF AMERICA}}
* In ''[[
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* A common theme in ''[[
*''[[Forgotten Realms]]'': [[Stiff Upper Lip|Knights of the Golden Rooster]] in
* ''[[Battlefleet Gothic]]'', of all things — and among the Orks of all people. Leadership (crew competence and morale) is randomly generated, but the Ork battlecruiser and battleships have a special rule: they "can opt to swap Leadership ratings with a Kill kroozer or Terror ship to represent the warlord dragooning the best crew in the fleet aboard his vessel".
== [[
* In the [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''[[The Lost Spellmaker]]'', all of the spellmakers (people who, well... make spells, for the entertainment of the masses) from the PC's town and the other villages nearby are mysteriously disappearing. It turns out they're being stolen by the nearby city of Plantasitoy. Given that Plantasitoy is {{spoiler|an anagram for [[
* During a given countries "golden age" it has often been common for adventurous immigrants to swarm over there to find opportunities. For instance, several conquerors have had scholars and artists crowding their courts simply because the prestige attracts. This naturally causes a [[Brain Drain]] in other countries.▼
** By the same principle, countries going through particularly bad times experience an exodus of the talented to anywhere else, which naturally makes ending those bad times more difficult. Perhaps the most famous example of this phenomenon is the [[Berlin Wall]], which was in large part erected to prevent skilled people from leaving East Germany (and instead had the unintended effect of keeping precisely those people in East Germany who were unskilled at climbing walls).▼
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** He actually was a hugely valuable employee for them, his wacky ideas were given a fair try and made the people he managed more productive.
== [[
▲* During a given countries "golden age" it has often been common for adventurous immigrants to swarm over there to find opportunities. For instance, several conquerors have had scholars and artists crowding their courts simply because the prestige attracts. This naturally causes a
▲* In the [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''The Lost Spellmaker'', all of the spellmakers (people who, well... make spells, for the entertainment of the masses) from the PC's town and the other villages nearby are mysteriously disappearing. It turns out they're being stolen by the nearby city of Plantasitoy. Given that Plantasitoy is {{spoiler|an anagram for [[Play Station]]}}, one could easily read this as a metaphor.
▲** By the same principle, countries going through particularly bad times experience an exodus of the talented to anywhere else, which naturally makes ending those bad times more difficult. Perhaps the most famous example of this phenomenon is the [[Berlin Wall]], which was in large part erected to prevent skilled people from leaving East Germany (and instead had the unintended effect of keeping precisely those people in East Germany who were unskilled at climbing walls).
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