They dont want you to think or use your own eyes.
in fact, engagement of your cognitive and ocular faculties is all they can ever hope to aspire to.
engagement leads to escalation, an addition to the various proverbs concerning conflict of any kind.
participating in the template method of back and forth, can only lead to reciprocation.
tit for tat, should such trading transpire (wherein equal amounts of similar seeming stuffs are swapped), profits no-one.
do you think the cretinati to whom you refer really exhibit the traits of an organised, competent group of motivated, capable personnel, and even a leader?
that someone/group would pay for the services of a skilled group, to mimic the behaviour of willing idiots, does not seem likely to me.
pick a group even as small as 100 persons, lock them in a room, and throw in a fet-ist, or a creationist, or a non-orthodox belief holder of any kind - holocaust denier could be the christmas, or easter, speacial - and how many zealous acolytes of whatever 'generally held' opinion will emerge?
at least a few, with even the harshest of demographic splits.
better make sure there is good internet connectivity, the fact mantra will always want its links to said factual-ness.
note the similarity between the more fervent science parishioners, and the more fervent abrahamic religious devotees, who both rely ever more heavily on referring to scripture, with very precise locations for what is at best ambiguous common sense statements, in the style of reference and divinity.
so in conclusion, why pay for tradesmen, when you can get free labour from an obviously skill free, but determined in the way only the cognitively slovenly can be, volunteer contingent.