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.<p>DOGE is the accelerationist end-state of the consultant economy.
Consulting companies destroy valuable institutional knowledge and make the government less effective, so I'm onboard in theory.<p>The flipside of removing them is you now need to hire experts/specialists to do the work properly, not fire them...<p><a href="https://youtu.be/ycVBoWsGLJs" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/ycVBoWsGLJs</a>
McKinsey were major contributors to the opiate epidemic. They should have been banned from any US government business already.<p><a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/de/news/presse/settlement-funds" rel="nofollow">https://www.mckinsey.com/de/news/presse/settlement-funds</a>
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?
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.