What other areas have you experienced? What you're describing is just human nature, every field of human endeavour is like that, because they're run by humans.

What other areas have you experienced? What you're describing is just human nature, every field of human endeavour is like that, because they're run by humans. Despite this, we have made unimaginable scientific progress over the last few 100 years, and we are continuing to progress at and even faster rate.