This whole thing of ridding the civil service of expertise and leaning on external consultants instead was done under the guise of cutting costs, but in practice they’re more expensive and do a worse job. Not only because they’re incentivised to do the least amount of work possible for the most amount of pay possible, but also because quite often they’re little more than the government’s sock puppets. They get paid to tell the government what it wants to hear, and then the government can say (and technically meet some legal requirements) that they’re listening to the experts.
This is not unique to NYC or the US, but it’s good that someone in the public eye is trying to do something about it. May it inspire others.
Wonder what it’s like to be at mckinsey and after your company has been advising corps to cut staff and do stock buybacks for 40 years as an infinite money glitch suddenly you’re the bloat.
McKinsey: No not like that!
Doesn’t that put the onus on the companies who follow that advisement? E.g. Allstate chose to be assholes for more money. If it’s not McKinsey, then someone else. McKinsey is doing what they were hired to do. They are a symptom, not the disease. I always see this disdain for McKinsey, but not Bain, or BCG. Curious.
McKinsey should hire McKinsey and then McKinsey should advise McKinsey to right-size McKinsey.
And then everyone who’s left (and most who aren’t) should be criminally charged for their part in the neoliberal conspiracy to fuck up society for profit.
Seems like a good idea
