People choose to pay their taxes, therefore people want taxes. People choose to accept EULAs before they use software, therefore people want EULAs. People choose to stay with spouses with whom they occasionally fight, therefore people want fighting in their lives. People choose to navigate complex civil bureaucracies in order to get things done, therefore they want bureaucracy.

Or, people can suffer through a certain amount of bullshit in order to get to their goals. The word you're looking for is "instrumental" -- there's your missing interpretation.

At some point in the past ten or so years, the cultural discourse has devolved to such an extent that people cannot think even one move ahead. Zero tolerance manicheanism rules everything now.