During a sales meeting last week they had us watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CbZJL5sez0

"Emotionally manipulate your customers to get them to buy shit they don't need or might not be able to sell without thinking about it"

That is not a healthy long term strategy for any company and I think I might need to start looking for a new job. That whole video is wild as fuck mask off shit about why marketing people get the wall.

Another factor is simply sticking around long enough until they have the seniority to be promoted. The motivated people look elsewhere; the mediocre people settle for what they've got and slowly advance inside companies.

It's a mechanism of the Peter Principle.