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Re: McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

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20 year olds out of university know nothing about business, management, finance or the economy. The financial system and economy are in a constant state of flux, everything they teach in university is already outdated 10 years before you even start the degree. As for economics, most of what they teach has nothing to do with the real economy; just some phony models with fancy math which bear absolutely no relationship…

If it's that obvious, stop to think about a few things. Why is management consulting a billion dollar industry? Are there that many clueless executives running F500 companies (pretty much all of them). Or perhaps your understanding of management consulting isn't quite right.

>> Why is management consulting a billion dollar industry?

Because most rich people are idiots but they have direct access to money printers via hundreds of legal money laundering schemes going on in the background so they can afford to waste as much of it as they want on whatever they want and still be profitable.

Re: McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

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> So we are left with something people like and don't want to give up, and that's bad because... :) ... other people are burdened with providing it against their will. A Southern plantation owner in the pre Civil War southeast US had something they liked and didn't want to give up and it was most certainly very very bad.

UBI is universal, everyone gets it. I’d wager if you asked slaves if they were enjoying it they’d say no. One of the many problems is they weren’t being asked.

I think the counterpoint is that, while everybody receives the same amount, people contribute differing levels so the net benefit is very different for individuals.

I think this is an affront to some people's ideas of fairness even though it aligns with progressive tax schemes.

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