That unfortunately applies to management in non-literal hierarchical sense whether voters, work of high hope no talents who expect success to be just one step away, or telling friends that their new romantic relationship is toxic and self-destructive. Societies have long had hypocrisy problems with honesty globally and frankly probably in prehistory and precivilization as well given how little humanity has fundamentally changed. Rven with our vast accumulation of knowledge over time.

Honesty just isn't selected for in an "evolutionary" system. It comes down to a true but unsatisfying tautology that things which survive better wind up being more common, especially when those things create more of themselves.