They are all intelligent and highly successful professionals.
They're not as bright as you think they are.
Do they hire everything done? I see this a lot in people that can't actually do anything concrete, but have secured a nice juicy position in the Grift.
"intelligent and highly successful" is a relative term. Look at all the congresscritters who go to Congress poor and return home wealthy. It may be more of a measure of well-hidden sociopathy in many cases.
“ Do they hire everything done? “
No, they build more things themselves than anybody I’ve ever known.