The world has become a showcase

'What can be seen gets sold', this is the general belief that is going around in the world. The media and internet are not helping the case either.
Consider this case:
An engineering looking is for a job. While he lacks good solid subject knowledge he is very good in grooming ,appearance and body language. Now this is probably not his fault only . Emphasis might be given more on developing him that way
Another case; A team of professionals presents a fantastic presentation in front of the board, but the business is not developing. Probably their focus on showing the work is much more than doing it actually.
We live in a Showcase world today. The focus has widely shifted from doing the work to showing that the work is done. We are often not concerned about the outcome in terms of actual quality and value of the work but just about the external appearance of it.
The environment has to play a big role in this. We live in a world of instant gratification where things are happening instantly, so we want everything in a jiffy and that we don't want to wait, spend some time and understand it. Now how is this related to the showcase world that I am talking about. We all know the cycle of input, process and output. As we know the process is very much important for the transformation from input to output. But what happens when we want instant results. The process suffers and we have to sugarcoat the output and that is where we showcase the output instead of the real one.
People are increasingly becoming oriented towards showcasing what they do rather than doing actual work. It also is possibly appreciated that way.The point to ponder here is are we losing the actual quality and integrity in work and are we creating a hoax world which is seeing the appearance rather than the actual content
This is reflected both tangibly and intangibly. Are we leading to a scenario where we are creating a bubble that will burst and the whole system may collapse.

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