It seems as though you are a client and not a consultant, which gives us a little bit of charity when trying to understand why you appear to be utterly clueless about how to be a great consultant.
Answer: you're not a sociopathic consultant, just a client who sees the hired help as a commodity chattel. That's you're perogative, but if you woke up today willing to be humbled, what you haven't realized is that by definition, you're working with below-average consultants who only care that you pay them.
The optimism is that an entirely wonderful future is possible if you accept that you just might be doing it all wrong.
