"money-oriented snake oil salesmen" aren't the problem though. They're just selling stuff to earn your salary. The real problem are the bean counters and the managerial trends from 1980s onward.
For every manager who grew from the rank and file, understands what their teams are going through, and shields their teams from the BS, there will be another who went through business school and was indoctrinated that you should ask for more than what you want, to hell with the consequences and the corner cutting, and the rank and file will figure it out somehow to deliver what you want.
For every manager who grew from the rank and file, understands what their teams are going through, and shields their teams from the BS, there will be another who went through business school and was indoctrinated that you should ask for more than what you want, to hell with the consequences and the corner cutting, and the rank and file will figure it out somehow to deliver what you want.