Consulting companies destroy valuable institutional knowledge and make the government less effective, so I'm onboard in theory.
The flipside of removing them is you now need to hire experts/specialists to do the work properly, not fire them...
McKinsey were major contributors to the opiate epidemic. They should have been banned from any US government business already.
I really see no problem in posing a danger for consulting companies.
Hopefully they will all come out weaker from mutual fight.
I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't able to jockey into a position that sees their continued success. That's what they are good at right?
Don't threaten me with a good time..
I keep asking myself when HN will stop censoring everything about Musk
OK, why is this flagged?!? It's from the Economist for god's sake, I can't help but feel the reason why it got flagged was because it was critical of Musk?
Pay wall but headline has me in high spirits. Good riddance, Elon remains a fart face but anything that hurts the blight that is these consultancies is welcome.
Broken clock does what?
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The danger for consulting companies is that Elon is using their strategies with even more arrogance, even younger and poorly-qualified consultants, even less understanding of the what they're wrecking, and even more contrived metrics to make decisions.
DOGE is the accelerationist end-state of the consultant economy.