Integrity? Something the world seems awfully short of, these days.
As if the world was brimming with integrity in the past? We have the internet now, and can see how the powerful have been behaving this whole time.
Self-interest would probably also work. You can do that once, maybe twice, but word will get around.
Yeah I’m with you, once the friends group clued in that it was a bunch of financial types trying to make trades on a feeling, they should have spit all kinds of divergent information into that idiot machine.
You can do that once, at best. Most of them have a phone system which counts the minutes and you get prorated. The people paying the money aren't idiots. They'll cut you off after 10 minutes if it seems like you are full of it. Then the relevant expert network never calls you again.
The other side (the people that pay) do reviews etc.
"Mr X appears incompetent".
It's probably more like a plea deal negotiation. They pay for the info not just the conversation.