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As I've said a thousand times: the sorts of MBA types you are describing here are the US equivalent to Soviet "apparatchiks."
by api 6y ago
As I've said a thousand times: the sorts of MBA types you are describing here are the US equivalent to Soviet "apparatchiks."
- tharne 6y agoThis is the best kept secret in corporate America. The McKinsey and private equity crowds like to think of themselves as these innovative and wild capitalist cowboys, when really they're just a bunch of Soviet rent-seekers with better haircuts.
- mrybczyn 6y agoTo add to the metaphor - for many behind the curtain - the soviet aparatchiks came imposed from a foreign country - Russia. The only difference is that you're less likely to be sent to Gulag, or worse.
- api 6y agoUS apparatchiks come from a foreign country of sorts too: coastal elite cities and coastal top-ten universities. That world is as far from most of America as Moscow was from Ukraine.