I know why politicians do that, but why do people do it here on ycombinator?
They really need to think they're not getting short ends of sticks, because if they thought they were being taken for fools by the powerful they'd have to downgrade their self-opinions. Tribal buy-in works on all primates.
Because it wouldn't be profitable if people looked at service levels instead of an artificial number that made them think they were getting something other than the short end of every stick in their vicinity?