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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 23:55:14 JST Cory Doctorow

   A real DOGE: Fire every McKinsey consultant in the federal government

   by #MattStoller
   https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you

   #doge #corruption #mckinsey

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 23:56:40 JST Cory Doctorow

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     A real DOGE: investigate and prosecute McKinsey for the corruption it enabled in the federal government.

     by #MattStoller
     https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you

     #doge #corruption #mckinsey

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 00:00:17 JST Cory Doctorow

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     McKinsey pulls the strings and siphons billions out of the Puerto Rico bankruptcy, ICE kids in cages, Space Force boondoggles and more. The US government pays $3m/year for a fresh-out-of-college McKinsey "consultant."

     by #MattStoller
     https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you

     #doge #corruption #mckinsey

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 00:03:33 JST Cory Doctorow

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     McKinsey is behind the majority of illegal mergers, the majority of pharma patent fraud, and the majority of illegal exclusive dealing cases. They keep asthma inhaler prices high, write strategy for ALL THREE Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and all five big defense contractors.

     by #MattStoller
     https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you

     #doge #corruption #mckinsey

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 00:06:46 JST Cory Doctorow

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     It's McKinsey's world. We just live here.

     by #MattStoller
     https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you

     #doge #corruption #mckinsey

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     Yakyu Night Owl (yakyunightowl@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 00:24:25 JST Yakyu Night Owl

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     @pluralistic There was a time when it was Kinsey's world, and the name familiarity has allowed us to be screwed by McKinsey.

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     Steven Zekowski (steve_zeke@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 01:31:29 JST Steven Zekowski

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     @pluralistic
     John Oliver did a great job with this about a year ago. #McKinsey #corruption #capitalism

     https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ

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     Kierkegaanks regretfully (kierkegaanks@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 01:31:31 JST Kierkegaanks regretfully

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     @pluralistic Let them streamline gitmo from the inside

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     Tim Clevenger :donor: (timjclevenger@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 01:31:44 JST Tim Clevenger :donor:

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     @pluralistic And little McKinsey cancers like Sundar Pichai and Sheryl Sandberg break off to then metastasize elsewhere in the economy.

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     Al Sweigart (alsweigart@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:14:37 JST Al Sweigart

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     @pluralistic Required reading for those interested in this topic: Bullshit Jobs by the late, great David Graeber

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     Gergovie (gergovie@piaille.fr)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:14:41 JST Gergovie

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     @pluralistic

     McKinsey was also behind the electoral campain of Emmanuel Macron.

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     Corpomancer (corpomancer@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:14:45 JST Corpomancer

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     @pluralistic Warms my heart to see fresh out of Uni kids advising industry experts with decades of experience on how to do their jobs as poorly as humanly possible.

     Corporate sabotage factory at its finest.

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     PhillyChuck (phillychuck@jawns.club)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:14:50 JST PhillyChuck

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     • Matti Aleve

     @pluralistic @maleve and/or everyone whose terminal degree is an MBA

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     mausmalone (mausmalone@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:10:16 JST mausmalone

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     @pluralistic I feel like the final point in that screenshot is the biggest "no duh" that immediately deflates privatization.

     The government does X and it costs Y.
     If a private company is going to do X and make a profit, it's going to cost the tax payers _at least_ Y + profit margin.

     The only way it drives costs down is if the private company doesn't do the work.

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     ira (iraantlers@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:10:28 JST ira

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     @pluralistic True that. The bullshit jobs described by Graeber incarnate.

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     Mix Mistress Alice💄 (mixmistressalice@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:10:35 JST Mix Mistress Alice💄

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     @pluralistic France's disastrous Macronism also goes hands in hands with McKinsey.

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     @jacquiharper (jacquiharper@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 04:10:37 JST @jacquiharper

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     • Al Sweigart

     @AlSweigart @pluralistic Best. Cover. Ever 😃

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     Matthew Merkovich (mattmerk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 05:45:41 JST Matthew Merkovich

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     @pluralistic I knew someone who worked for McKinsey. I’ve also known several Scientologists. What I’ve learned from both of these associations is that no matter how deep you dive to write an exposé into either of these cults, the truth is much, much, much, much, … much worse.

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     Daniel Marks (profdc9@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 05:45:53 JST Daniel Marks

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     @pluralistic We can't fire McKinsey consultants, I mean responsibility ain't going to evade itself you know.

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 06:27:25 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     @pluralistic
     I think about this all the time:

     "I thought it was ironic that I came into the internship as a borderline prison abolitionist and ended it by receiving a job offer in a warden’s conference room. But by the end of that summer, I had grown to like many of the people running Rikers, bonding with the jail’s most senior uniformed officer over our mutual love of Led Zeppelin. It was an early lesson that interpersonal kindness is not the same as actual goodness."

     https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/

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     toa5t (toa5t@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 07:34:59 JST toa5t

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     • Matthew Merkovich

     @MattMerk @pluralistic just reading Bare-faced Messiah. Spicy!

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     roland (roland@devdilettante.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 00:37:23 JST roland

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     @pluralistic instant $USD 70 Billion savings :-)