This why many, many professional services exist, and their stated intentions exist solely to create complex arguments about social values and virtue signaling.

This why many, many professional services exist, and their stated intentions exist solely to create complex arguments about social values and virtue signaling. - professional advertising services (especially quant ad attribution) only exists to facilitate blame deflection in advertising choices, and does not exist to facilitate the use of scientific inquiry to measure the effect of ads and make rational choices based on the results. - investment management services exist so trustees and board members can deflect blame or steal credit for unpredictable market performances, and they do not exist to pursue objective truth or scientific inquiry of portfolio optimization - corporate consulting exists to provide external political capital to the weight of internal arguments. It exists to determine the correct political ally to align with, then to present that party’s mandates as if they were arrived at through dispassionate scientific inquiry. It does not exist to actually make objective, scientific recommendations that are independent of the prevailing political preferences at play in the company. - outsourcing services exist to give credibility to economic benefits of outsourcing even if they are not actually demonstrated in the data. They do not exist to actually facilitate efficient reallocation of resources to an external party. - recruiting and headhunting services do not exist to facilitate finding a good fit for the job or representing both a candidate and a company in a dispassionate way. They exist to represent the political leanings of the relevant party inside the company and backfill credibility and objectivity to what will obviously be a nepotistic, biased choice of candidate, or a candidate with a biased agenda in favor of the powerful party (rather than objectively assessing the situation once hired). - human resource services exist to measure problematic aspects of employees and flag them for removal or disciplinary action, or flag genuine complaints for suppression, in the most economical way for the company. HR does not exist to advocate for employee well-being, protect employees who are wronged, facilitate adequate training or execute a role of objective mediator with checks and balances on the internal political power of other departments - think tanks and academic and legal accreditation and certification services do not exist to ensure a high standard of professional competence nor to enforce a high standard of ethics, they exist to create artificial supply shortages and obfuscate the ability to participate in the professional class, to further entrench power of taste-maker intellectuals and governing bodies to tacitly favor those with wealth and connections, and to create what are effectively censorship tribunals that decide what beliefs are allowed to be considered good and progressive and what beliefs are allowed to be persecuted within the framework of reputation loss and legal punishment. All these systems share the overarching pattern that they exist to say one thing but do something completely different, essentially a way to launder hypocrisy-of-convenience through reputation filters that let power be ever more concentrated and punishment be ever more a function of poverty.