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> Conspiracy theories rely on people being much better at keeping secrets than we know they are.

Most people have no idea WHY they are doing what they are doing! Like the actual true long-term business objective of a task etc. Successful task completion usually requires only technical details and immediate organizational ones. Fake goals are easy to sell to investors and board members by expert manipulator sociopaths (the kind of people explicitly hired and selected for top executive roles).

You can make immense progress towards a goal you know nothing about. You can't leak a secret you don't know.

That's kind of how human societal evolution works, only the bigger goals are evolved/emergent instead of envisioned by some dark conspiratorial cabal. But you can't rule out the latter.

As a society we need to maintain some "immune reaction potential" against nefarious manipulation by entertaining unlikely conspiracy theories too!