Why does porky need some guy who can make spreadsheets and harvard 22 years to tell a 55 year old ceo to do his job with a powerpoint? and then make that guy a middle manager after he leaves mckinsey?
To give their economic woowoo a scientific veneer.
That's the work that porky could theoretically do himself but knows they can hire someone to do it so they can go golfing on their tradwife's glitter-bottomed yaught.
It's like a butler that fetches the remote from across the room.
>>160Also remember that guy making powerpoints is probably another porky's son. It spreads the wealth a little. They have too much to spend - what's the difference between buying a few new sports cars, or paying someone to dictate how many poor souls to fire and giving them a nice fat salary? It can maintain relations among porkies as well, which capitalists are all about.
>>160>>163exactly, the porky's son won't do productive work, god forbid
so that's a nice way to do the great historical leap from industrial capitalism to 'financial' capitalism, from 'manufacturing' backwardness to 'services economy' marvel
consultants are scape goats. they are blamed when shit hits the fan and won't get credit if it doesn't.
>>160It's class solidarity.
Consultants are just used as cheap staffing agencies.
>>167those are low end consultants. I think this is about high end "management" consulting.
>>160That's how capitalism spreads knowledge between different companies
It's a combination of factors.
<money laundering
<scapegoating
<performance for shareholders
<performance for management (convincing yourself you're actually doing something)
<actually trying to trim the "fat" in the business
etc
>>160its several things
-rubber stamping
-status signaling
-self soothing
>>160Undoubtedly there will be someone in the comments who will make a bad argument as to why
Y'all act like Siberia is for shit posting when clearly labor should be renamed into wagie cagie or labor aristocracy
Storytime: I was hired as a consultant.
It was a staffing agency that called everyone a consultant for the reputation.
From 1950 to 1980, manufacturing went from all in 1 roof to sub assemblies with interchangeable parts to minimize the impact of labor unions.
From 2010 to 2035, all online labor will move over to contracting to avoid certain labor laws and to hot swap staff in the event of unionization.
>>1596Get back into your wage cagie labor aristocrat.