With these projects, there are Veblen effects. No-one wants the $50k/year consultant who quietly cranks out good work...they want the $300k/year consultants whose work may or may not be good but they can spin, make things easy with your boss, etc.
...stuff like this drives me mad. You see it everywhere. I worked in financial services, and (on my weaker days) it was enraging to see someone pay three or four times the price to get a product that was not only bad, it was literally worthless...life is weird.
...stuff like this drives me mad. You see it everywhere. I worked in financial services, and (on my weaker days) it was enraging to see someone pay three or four times the price to get a product that was not only bad, it was literally worthless...life is weird.