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> lawmakers have questioned if consulting in China conflicts with the firm’s work for the US Department of Defense. Playing both sides against the middle is a
by CodeWriter23 2y ago
> lawmakers have questioned if consulting in China conflicts with the firm’s work for the US Department of Defense.
Playing both sides against the middle is a legitimate concern, despite your inability to see it as such, in addition to being the oldest trick in the book. That works like this:
1. Supply adversary A for conflict
2. Supply adversary B for conflict
3. Trigger conflict (note the lack of question mark typical in examples of this meme)
4. Profit
- smarm52 2y agoI came to the same conclusion. Some additional context which may be helpful to make the point a bit clearer: > that McKinsey & Company was "the most well-known, most secretive, most high-priced, most prestigious, most consistently successful, most envied, most trusted, most disliked management consulting firm on earth". Or, in other words, they help shape policy for business and governmental organizations in the US and the larger western world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company They can make money or gather power based off the mutual distrust between China and the Western world, which is an example of the Prisoner's dilemma or a "divide and conquer" strategy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
- toomuchtodo 2y agoLegislators are aware. https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-bill-cracking-down-mckinsey-management-consultants-ccp-ties-passes-committee https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-bill-cracking-down-mcki... https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/Hawley-Time-to-Choose-Act.pdf https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/Ha...