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I once heard a salesguy say the following statement: "One of our customers accused me of selling them shit. But all we have is shit, so what do you expect?"

There's usually entire teams involved in preparing these sorts of decks - from content researchers via subject matter experts to designers. So not a single person needs to believe in it all at once.

I think a far better question is: Does whoever is paying for these decks to be prepared believe in them? These decks aren't (always) built for internal use.

>hey intern, here's the topic, here's some buzzwords, here's the word and slide count, you have 3 hours

Some of these are real howlers.

“Broadband and 5G will be life-essential for most”

Well no shit, Sherlock.