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Some truth to this (minus the ritual child sacrifice). However it’s hard to do complex ambitious things like manufacturing semiconductors or designing consumer
by smokefoot 3y ago
Some truth to this (minus the ritual child sacrifice). However it’s hard to do complex ambitious things like manufacturing semiconductors or designing consumer laptops in a small company. Big problems demand a big organization and increasingly they’re what drives our economy.
The lived experience inside big companies is bad and getting worse. Consultants are a symptom of this, but I think the root cause is an insatiable demand for earnings growth and productivity which is basically a force of nature at this point. The alternative is deindustrialization or some rethinking of the social contract.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoYep. I have no argument for heavy industry. Things like semiconductors do take a lot of capital, and a large organization. I'd be curious to find out how much Intel or TSMC use consultants. The old school Intel was run by engineers, I would bet they did not use consultants as much as modern Intel. The problem seems to be how much technical knowledge is kept in-house, thus not needing consultants. Versus Companies that have outsourced their technical knowledge and now can't survive without consultants.