Ironically, it’s execs of large companies that are probably most adept, out of any of us, at intuitively realizing exactly this. I’m not saying that to be pithy, I believe it’s literally true.

The folks who get to those positions understand reality to be fully malleable, often from a young age I’d bet, and they spend their lives very deliberately warping it to their own ends. It’s almost the defining trait of an executive at a megacorp.