The 'crisis' is with our failure to understand the nature of value not values. The growing realisation that we inadequately value the overwhelming majority of inputs and outputs and so, no surprise, we can't manage the process and have no control over the end outcome. The consecutive short-term wins over the long-term because the oscillations are shallower, short-term, and it's easier to claim you achieved somewhere near your 99.96% target before resetting. Properly account for value and even the Shareholder Value thesis might start to make sense.