My theory is that it seems so much easier to &quot;delegate&quot; and buy one&#x27;s responsibility out of the problem when one&#x27;s budget is awash with investor cash, particularly for public companies. In some ways it is often refreshing to work for early-stage&#x2F;cash-starved companies because blatant waste such as this is not that easy to achieve. A darker variant of this theory tries to determine whether the principals of the firm being contracted have any relationship with the people hiring them.