Yep, “RPP” one of those positive illusions that the naive cling to, while the sociopathic leverage its rhetoric to advance up the ladder. Or to impress the status quo onto new entrants of the social hierarchy.
It’s a very scary thing to live in the real world.
"Solving things in private" actually means that the power-brokers will have private "off-record" discussions to determine the fates of people who have no say in the discussion and don't even know the discussion happened.
It's a quaint principle though. Something for graduate students to aspire to while they're grinding away in the lab at 3am.