What? iPad Air 2 is slow as hell in many websites and always when using more than one application. I recently had to buy a laptop just because doing any kind of work was really slow on the Air 2.
The point wasn't to create any actual positive effect on the people. The point was to make them focus on life-long internal competition and quest for glory. They succeeded tremendously.
Yes, we truly live in the age of useless bullshit. 99/100 talks I've watched from YouTube make me skip through the bullshit and see if there's even a single slide with some interesting content in it.
Yes, we all get that you don't get that it's easy for larger companies to mix in workforce that either does nothing or does not even exist. This is rampant in the construction and IT businesses.
It doesn't matter even for smaller corporations: if you can bill the PMs work from customer, he's just as qualified as the guy with top grades from top university.
Employers don't need to take responsibility. All they need to do is to think about income. If they can bill the customer for an employee's "work" it doesn't matter to them whether the employee can actually do anything or not. This is common practice in the IT industry.