Thanks for this. I'm 60 and have been watching McKinsey destroy companies for most of my career & never get blamed for anything. They are a horrible cancer in our economy.
If McKinsey can't figure it out, the chances are low that other people are going to manage to figure it out. If you call in consultants to save you from a bad situation... It's because it was a bad situation.
@@MariaCarmen-wb7gv Because there is a very much planned narrative behind it. We are controlled by fear and MSM and politicians feed us all the time with thier lies. It is painful to wake up and they know it - but it will soon change....
@@Leto2ndAtreides They don't figure out how to make things better. They figure out how the co can make more money doing whatever unethical thing others would never suggest.
I got fired from a job as the head mechanic for a trucking company 30 years ago. The CEO said that I wasn't working hard enough. He said that all the previous mechanics were rebuilding engines, transmissions, drive axles, etc all the time and that I wasn't doing that. I wasn't doing all those heavy repairs because the trucks were not breaking, they were all out on the road working. Stupid me, I thought I was there to reduce breakdowns.
So you invested your staff into preventive maintenance , which in itself saved the company on expensive repair bills. And through some twisted logic these consultants told your boss you were expendable. What a bunch of leeches. And your superiors where idiots in taking such advice.
It's the classic case of a person doing their job so well, it appears that they are doing nothing. I'm also curious as to what happens to those sorts of short-sighted companies after they lose their key players
"We need to make the glass unfillable and charge the consumer for each one. The markup on new product is greater and your profits will be greater as a result."
I am an ex McKinsey "consultant" form one of the European offices. All you mention here is absolutely true - and more. When I tried to act as "Whistleblower", they shut me down and put a linen of silence, delay and deny around it. I am happy to talk to you, if you want to reach out
@@anotherrandomtexan25 of course it did. And of course they put a tombal stone on this, supported by the indifference of everyone. It is normal. It is McK politics
@@niyaza70mohamed50 Does not surprise me at all. Constant patronizing and harassment and alcoholism, is part of their mission. If you have the guts to survive it, you make it to the next level
I was a Manager for Walmart for 10 years. On my 10th year I was told my salary had Topped Out and that I would get no more raises. I was then offered the job as a District Manager. Instead of being over one store, I would be responsible for up to 7 stores. If I took the job I would be eligible for raises again. I would take the District Manager job while on my single store manager wage. I asked them if I took the District Manager job would they bump my store manager wage to the District manager wage. Amazingly my current wage as Store Manager was the wage for District Manager. So my wage for one store would now be the wage for seven stores. I said nope and left after 2 weeks. Walmart was shocked I did not accept their forced proposal. A few months later they sent 2 home office suits to interview me and take me out to lunch. I said no need. You told me I could no longet get raises in my current posistion, so I left to be a store manager for another company that does not top out wages. Walmart still uses the wage top out policy to this day. My family member had her salary top out and worked for 7 more years for Walmart with no raises in wage, until she retired. This is a HORRIBLE policy that punishes long term employees.
@@Joyce-v7fSounds like Uber Technologies. Drivers get no increases when costs go up for owning the vehicle, but riders' fares go up with every lawsuit that gets filed against Uber. And that SURGE pricing is outright ridiculous in some cities. Drivers can only make money on surges to recover their losses, say on a Friday night, then Uber penalizes drivers the next night by not giving them rides or giving them rides to known riders who have a pattern of cancelling on their drivers so Uber can keep that cancellation fee. Lyft is no better. It's like they're the same company! Greedy corporations are destroying the middle class plus making everyone "insurance poor." Thank goodness somebody came up with a better way to travel, if having to use an app as a dispatcher to get a ride! HUM Rideshare is allowing drivers to get 100% of fare with NO SURGE PRICING EVER for the RIDER!! Only in AZ right now and will be opening up in Idaho soon, if not already there! Drivers are able to ACT like REAL INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS on the HUM app. It's Rideshare Done Right!
@@Vacillate-v9e Speaking of raising prices on merchandise; I got to see the mark up and profit margins on each product in my store and it blew my mind. Something that cost Walmart pennies; like 8 cents per item Walmart was selling at $4.97 an item; this was very very common.
CEOs getting paid millions, and STILL they need to hire consulting firms to tell them what to do. You would think that for millions of dollars, a CEO could actually do the job themselves. Why are we paying CEOs so much money? For what?
You make an excellent point. It should be obvious, but I never really thought about it. And don't forget, there's also a board of directors who are experts in their fields. My ex-business partner and I were once hired by the pharmaceutical giant, Scherimg-Pough, in Memphis, Tennessee to make a competitive product to Slimfast. We had a small company in California that made Sports Nutrition products, especially powdered drinks. The first time we flew back to Tennessee, we were both shocked at the unbelievable facilities this company had, and all of its lettered employees. And here they were hiring two guys with a startup company in California to do fairly simple, but creative work they could not accomplish themselves.
According to the video, consulting firms offer business intelligence (it's corporate espionage). It's not about the knowing the best way to do something, it's about countering your opposition. Or from the consulting firm's POV, about playing a bunch of greedy CEOs and government officials against each other for fun and profit.
I worked for a large competitor of this company. I was a data analyst. They kept trying to fit the data to their conclusions rather than the other way around. They were creepy and exploitative. There were some good people there, but they didn't last long. Most of the people at these places are...not people I'd ever choose to be around again.
People's desire for wealth has created trust issues from the start. Their social standing has nothing to do with their mental capacity to harm others to better themselves.
Deloitte is similar to McKinsey in many ways. Back in 2010 I worked for a bank and they paid Deloitte several million dollars to come in and tell them how to "improve" their business. The employees had been telling the leadership all along what needed to change, but Deloitte came in and said the same things and got a big payday for it. I anonymously had to vent about that one on the company feedback page.
Deloitte, KPMG, EY and PWC are the big 4 in Australia rorting Aussie governments. Absolute scum. Useless flogs. But Executive doesn't listen unless it comes from them.
Status trumps knowledge or action in a screwed up world. Like this one. Unless you have the right status, your actions and knowledge are irrelevant. IF you have the right status, your actions and knowledge can be dead wrong - Covid proved that for me conclusively.
Yes I heard of Blackrock and Vanguard owning every CEO in every company before but never heard of McKinsey prior to this. But then again we heard of Private Equity companies like Bain, Carlyle Group and KKR playing similar tactics as this one and some of us are delayed from responding to this because we heard of similar companies playing the same stuff.
Some of us are delayed from responding to the allegations at McKinsey because in some parts of the country we have to deal with Venture Capitalists playing the same tactics to start up companies here.
Reports like this are absolutely critical, while the public is so easily distracted by superficial social and political issues, companies like this fly under the radar and reap havoc, keep up the great work!
These consultants from McKinsey often appear to make really stupid decisions. I'm not saying they don't work hard but, we got one in our offices that has made all the work take three times as long. We're massively backlogged now and the industry, as a whole, has never moved more slowly - due to our loss of productivity- of which we are a driver. The Execs are too removed from the work to realize that the advice they were given is essentially poison. Hell, maybe they do know and are trying to tank the company in order to pick over the salvage. Either way, bad experience.
And the bigger picture is the people running the companies that are comfortable with this mindset. Millions of individuals in the southern states vote against their own interests, too, which support these scumbags. You cannot vote one way, and then question when you’re shit on every single day. 😂
YOU and everyone else have *NO* chance. None. If you lack coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, communities, and opportunities, then you ain't NOTHIN'. Yer a zero. No influence. No effect. That's the reality. #copium
You DO realize that the "United States" is a literal Federal Corporation, right? Read US Code Title 28 Subsection 3002 Paragraph 15 if you don't believe me, it's an easy google search, just copy and paste.
It’s amazing how the world has changed in the last 20 years you get more investigative journalism from UA-cam then from larger outlets, like TV channels and newspapers and magazines
@@AlejandroTaylorEscribano But whatabout the heartwarming stories? Or reporting on the crimes where everyone involved knows each other - don't you want Americans to feel safe?
@@AlejandroTaylorEscribano I think Arcanondrum is mocking cable news' habits of covering up their ties to their advertising partners by tokenistically mixing in the occasional human interest story or non-random crime.
People only say that about subjects they want to hear about. Plenty of people investigate plenty of things that get met with naysayers, haters, and threats against them. Like how about SA’s in the military, do people love that journalism? Do they even care?! Or SA’s to children?! Do people love that journalism or do people STILL call those people HER FAULTS, attention seekers, Me Too’s, liars, and sluts. Even though actual man of Christ, Derek Prince said back in the 1980’s one in four girls under ten are molested. And one in five boys are. That number is going up. Cause morality is way down. STILL People deny these problems exist. Cause it makes their comfortable lies so uncomfortable. People only seem to like investigative journalism when it’s about how their money is being stolen and something about celebrities. Don’t say people love investigative journalism. In the last decade more investigative journalists have been murdered than any other time in history combined. People hate investigative journalism unless it benefits their entertainment, their potential for money being returned to their class, or for their ego. The REAL investigative journalism is about MORAL DILEMMAS that most people prefer to not get uncomfortable learning about.
I have so much love and appreciation for people like you who are bravely exposing what is seldom known to the average person, but negatively impacts humanity. Bravo and keep up the hard work!
When I was in banking we had a term that we were about to be McKinsey’d, layoffs and restructuring. I seldom saw any real benefit other than temporary cost reductions in order to prepare a bank to look good in a merger. Many mergers resulted in back tracking to older, less efficient technologies. I was laid off in one of these but redeployed to a new department. The most destructive change was the elimination of defined benefit pensions. For 19 years of banking, I receive a paltry $200 per month pension when similar public pensions would yield 10-15 times that.
THIS piece led off with the guy that ran for President despite the fact that he was Mayor of a Town that doubled in size when college was in session. I've seen some important work done to expose said Mayor. You can watch them as well, you're just 2 clicks away.
I work in government, and I work frequently with consultants. I can tell you that the primary reason that they are used is because if employees or even management have recommendations, neither the public nor elected officials will be willing to accept those recommendations unless they are verified by a consultant. You can be saying for 20 years that a particular change needs to occur and no one will take it seriously, but once a consultant comes in and says the same thing, it's taken as gospel truth. I think the same thing probably happens in private companies as well; shareholders (and CEO's by extension) just won't take action based off of the recommendations of their employees unless a third party comes in and makes the same recommendation. 95% of the time, the consultant will just come up with a report that pretty much says exactly what the organization wanted the report to say.
Problem with hierarchical systems and trust. Governments are basically low quality corporations that never experienced too much pressure to really up their game... More of a generic, monopoly problem.
The inauguration of '017 proved to me that racketeering has more power in the US than anything that would truly constitute law enforcement. Yet the people in charge wonder why they're so poorly respected.
A further book by Mariana Mazzucato called The Big Con, How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies. Also, recommend 'the value of everything' as an excellent overview of corporate capitalism (constantly reference this book and read it multiple times).
I used to be a corporate consultant. My last job dealt with "dead peasant insurance" - a company putting life insurance on their officers and workforce to be paid out to the company, not to the family, as a method of raising capital in the event of death - and that was enough for me. I'm poor now, but at least I have self-respect.
Banks and loan companies do this to insure they are payed in full for the deceased loan. It actually helps people because the bank doesn’t get hit with loses and turn that on to increased charges for consumers.
I've worked for many corporations and government organizations. Only one smaller organization I worked for had any altruism at all. All of the others were focused on profit, power, influence, and doing all around scummy things.
His response speaks so many volumes, because this guy is capable of tap dancing his way out of any corner. I've never seen him so incapable of generating an eloquent response before.
...and now you know why a nobody had MSM giving him so much positive coverage. I voted for Obama BUT he didn't give us single payer, he gave us what Insurance companies wanted. MSM gushed about him as well, didn't tell us much about him as well. Same for Hillary. She had plenty of data to look up for ourselves but what MSM never said was that no one was attending her Rallies yet "somehow" she faced exactly the person that she was set-up to lose against.
This where Pete Buttigieg came from. It's still mysterious to me how a guy goes from this, to mediocre mayor of podunk town, and then directly to national political figure with such quickness. 🤔
Thank you for this, having worked for this company for years, I realized that In these uncertain times, it's more important than ever to have a solid understanding of how to manage your finances, invest wisely and navigate economic downturns. But my primary concern is how to grow my reserve of $240k which has been sitting duck since forever with zero to no gains, sure I'm all in on the long term game, but with my savings are lying waste to inflation and my portfolio losing gains everyday, I need a remedy.
If you need advice, consider speaking with a financial advisor. Don't get me wrong, you can do it on your own, but financial advisors have a lot more knowledge and expertise in this area.
You are completely right, Advisors have information and paths that are not disclosed to the public.. I profited £560k in 2023 under the tutelage of my Fiduciary-counselor. Am I selling? Absolutely not.. I am going to sit back and observe how this all plays out.
@@christian-x6r4h Rebecca Lynne Buie is the licensed coach I use. Just research the name. You'd find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
Here in Canada McKinsey was being used a lot as well for Government consulting etc. but my understanding is that they are no longer being used by many companies because of the scandals. My wife works for a Crown Corp and they were told last year that McKinsey has been banned from all future consulting.
Of all the countries whom industries like consulting firms concern, I'm left wondering why the US is always last to respond appropriately. It's part of the reason I call the US the "Formerly United Corporations of Kochistan", because of the role of the Koch brothers and their astroturf in funding the malfeasance and manufacturing consent.
@@JJ-vp3bd Deceiving the people into approving something against all of their own best interests, which they would've rejected otherwise. United Statish cable news has been infamous for this since at least the 990s.
Greasing of the palms. A well hidden level of corruption runs everything in these "sophisticated" societies. And creates the opposite of the "prosperity" here, vs what we derisively label the "Third World".
Never forget, a business major's greatest aspiration is often to work for a company specifically like this. That isn't a coincidence that these companies cause more damage than good.
@@warnegoodman McKinsey are hypercredentialists, focused primarily on prestige, position, title etc. Only the very best grads and the children of the immensely wealthy end up working there. What those sort of people want for a corporation, government or society isn't necessarily what you or I would want. For example, for the management of a large business in trouble, McKinsey might counsel that it be broken up and its parts sold off. This would make shareholders immensely wealthy, but would be damaging for employment in the area where this business operated. Those people would be better off if the business sought alternative financing, or restructured its business in an attempt to keep operating and keep its staff working.
@@liz_violet every person I know who's ever taken business degree or wanted it, including several family members who actually have are narcissistic horrible people. Just like bosses. I think it really is just the natural order that certain bad personalities are attracted to certain jobs of high power, so naturally things will go horribly. It's just that it takes one good movement to go well to, so things don't go south tooo bad
I recall one of my economics professors saying that many people think that politicians and business leaders ask economists to recommend what should be done.. but what is in fact most often the case is that politicians and business leaders tell economists what will be done and the economists are asked to come up with a report recommending it.
It’s funny how as a student of economics I was simultaneously encouraged to go work for McKinsey while learning how much damage they have done to people and our economy.
I work in consulting. These days I feel like consultings primary purpose to give corporations justification for decisions they were going to do anyway. Consultants just provide a layer of justification for an action but often have little impact over the actual decision being made in the first place
@@TheAmericanAmerican Exactly. Under socialist theory, we're supposed to be openly discussing our pay with other workers - to make sure none of us is getting screwed-over.
Those of us with a voice would be under threat of lawsuit(s) and could lose our home (at 60 years old). I tried 4 times, through various lawyers and once even directly, to be an SEC whistleblower on insider trading. How naive did I have to be to finally realize that the SEC is like the fox guarding the hen house. I finally just quit a greewashing fraud, and they were so proud to have their CEO at the WEF. Thieves, insider trading, and money laundering. I'm beyond disgusted. And like most lying psychopaths, they got uglier when they realized that I discovered their BS. (It was a retaliatory hostile environment, but good luck proving that.) I signed on for a great paying job, but they only needed me to make these frauds look legitimate. I was hired for a position that didn't exist, for a PRODUCT that didn't exist. I hate corporate America
The consulting interview preps I’ve observed always end with the same advice : layoffs, close US production, offshore the jobs. Pretty standard advice from consultant kids
One can dream and hope. However, I think too many people are either overwhelmed by life and all of the systems that have been working against them. Or they are so deeply entrenched in their beliefsystems altered and manipulated by all of the propaganda, believe the opposite of truth and are losing so much energy hating "the other", whichever group of people it may at that time.
White American male chiming in: I have met entirely too many middle class Americans who are incapable of seeing Disney as anything other than a vague cultural simulacra, or worse they’re neck deep in Disney culture. Those people tune me out whenever I try to speak about specific social justice issues - it is the case that I have some success if I mostly listen to them tell me stories about their vacations or family celebrations and wait to point out positive ways that real social justice and human cooperation has benefited them.
I love when this sort of thing gets revealed. ????? How about doing a story about how food shelves and food banks really work? A lot of people, even food shelf workers, mistakenly believe that large corporations kindly donate their products to food shelves (via the big regional food banks like Second Harvest for redistribution to local food shelves) out of the goodness of their hearts. In reality, what happens is that the Farm Bill provides for an "enhanced" fed tax credit equal to cost + 50% of retail value for items "donated" to food banks. This form of tax credit means the corporate food suppliers actually are getting paid (just like the former child tax credits issued checks) amounts that are probably pretty close to what they would get by selling their products to retailers. The bonus for these corporations is that this is a profitable way to unload products that do not sell and that are close to the sell-by date or even significantly beyond the sell-by date. Some corporations even package products specifically to go to food banks which are heavily processed and filled with cheap unhealthy ingredients no one would choose from a grocery store shelf. Because corporations in this country have a mandate to increase shareholder wealth above all else, unless these companies are actually making a profit from "donating" products, they could actually be sued by their own shareholders. That is why they make sure that every "donation" benefits their bottom line and that is why food shelves are full of unhealthy, heavily processed products with inferior ingredients that contribute to chronic health problems like diabetes, obesity and heart disease, and many are also past their sell-by dates. Let's stop pretending these corporate food giants are being nice to the food insecure and expose what that they are making money off of the most vulnerable members of our population. As an example take a look at the fabulous new Second Harvest food bank building in the Mpls suburb, Brooklyn Center (" A guided tour of Second Harvest Heartland's new Brooklyn Park facility" on YT) that has Cargill, General Mills and Target logos all over it, despite the fact that the MN taxpayers spent over $18 million on this. The fact that these corporations control these food banks is obvious and they are controlling them because it is profitiable for them. Second Harvest makes it sound like there is a lot of fresh wholesome food, but that is NOT the case; it's almost ALL unhealthy processed food. It is NOT the case that over 60% of their product assortment is fresh (lean protein and produce), as they claim. The other catch is that these food bank packages are NOT forwarded to local food shelves free of charge; they have to pay huge delivery fees and the lightest weight, cheapest foods to get delivered are processed foods. The public has a right to know what is really going on with this scheme. At the very least, the government should not be giving these enhanced tax credits unless the products meet health and freshness guidelines.
Right? I'm trying to get a gleening and grow a row program going for our local food bank, and the legalese and regulations that I'm trying to wade through make my brain hurt. Idk if I can make this happen. Because as things stand now, everything collected has to go to a central distribution center, and then will be sent out to smaller local food banks. So everything from either a gleening or grow a row program would have to be collected, driven across my state, and then we might get some back, or we might not. And that's not something my local community is going to be ok with. I could probably convince them that anything extra that our food bank doesn't need should go to areas that don't have as much support. But they want to know that what they collected and grew is going to benefit the family down the road that's struggling, and make sure that the kids that go to school with their own kids are being fed first before sending stuff off for someone else to decide who should get it.
About 40 years ago when I was a Civilian Employee of the Federal Government, i was a Department of the Army Management Analyst, which is an efficiency expert, to adjust organizations and manpower. We has a statistical program such as Manpower Staffing Standards, where I attended a 7 week course to tell organizations at our location, what civilian staff they can have based on workload standards. 😊
Thanks for the journalistic editorial piece. More informative and professional than the established institutions of professionals that provide information.
Edward Snowden did a great breakdown in his book Permanent Record on the rise of consultants, particularly those working in government. I have yet to see any consultant that I have had to work with as a city planner that actually created anything new, innovative, or creative. Civil servants do the majority of work and consultants are there for the ride. It's a role meant to suck out government employee value and relevance and, in this respect, I guess that McKinsey succeeded.
If a Disney park never have a failed ride injury because of adequate maintenance, that child's death after firing the maintenance is on Disney. Since they were warned, it's effectively murder by willful neglect.
I’m sure the logic is, “ cutting maintenance puts money in your pocket now and going forward. Sure, something bad might happen as a result but who cares and that’s in the future and it might not even happen. You’ll save this money forever. And your insurance carrier will have to pay the wrongful death claim when and if it comes. “
@Watamata....Didn't FORD have some kind of deal where they would rather pay for lawsuits from some vehicle that had lots of failures rather than fix the actual problem? FORD believed that it would be cheaper to pay the law suits and fix the vehicles. Talk about COLD-BLOODED!!!
The new model will be for Ai to be the new CEO that way the company will not have to shell out money for a human CEO. But you know that’s just going to make the companies richer, not their employees.
More Perfect Union ... I’m impressed by your reporting, your sleuthing, your focus and passion for diving deeper, for “following the money”, looking into political and corporate structures that are greedy, sneaky, deceitful ... taking advantage of the American people. We need third party watchers ... to keep moral integrity intact. That was the foundation of straight forward journalism, as well as at the heart of holding businesses, individuals, owners of corporations, politicians, institutions, et al accountable. Thank you!!!
Seems like 2 primary functions of business strategy consults are: 1) Executives can hire them so that they themselves aren't blamed if decisions turn out poorly 2) Helps businesses who are falling behind versus competitors essentially tap into knowledge about how competitors are practicing
They do suck. Never cross one of their "ring fence" types ("best mates" with the exec) in an a org they operate in - they will make it their mission to have you fired. If a boss is an "alum" think again about that company - the mental attitude never leaves. Never take a job at a place McK or any competitors is "reorganizing", and if you see them arrive find another job ASAP. Life to too short to deal with their shiny but deranged BS ?
Outstanding video! I had no idea this company was so deep into American corporations. I watched “House of lies”, but had no idea these people were that powerful!
I had a phone call night before my hip replacement. They needed 5,000.00 deposit on surgery. I said call it off, I don't have 5,000.00!! Call it off? Lose money? Of course they said I could pay it later. I never did. They tried to charge me for a test on old hip. I said, never said a word, I would've said no, not my problem. Didn't pay that either. FIGHT YOUR BILLS!! Refuse!
I hate to admit but I also used the healthcare system and bucked the bill. At 36, I realize how ignorant I was because taxpayers pick up the slack. Real change starts in our local government offices - more stand-up citizens need to get involved.
I have worked as a consultant. I worked for a company who needed a software developer to build a tool. I work as a software developer. That makes sense as a consultant cost, the company isn't going to hire someone full time for a temporary job, I know enough about my field to make the tools. In what world does someone who has never managed their own company have the skills necessary to teach other people who are managers how to manage?
I don't think they do. Like the piece says, they're just a rationalization service, dressing terrible business decisions in business jargon to legitimize them.
yeah... these are just a bunch of suits who believe that their opinion is worth gold. they have no actual experience in these fields, they just compare to other companies in the same fields that they've consulted for. i'm sure some of them have valuable business degrees but let's be honest, this is one job that has ALREADY been replaced by chatgpt. "hey, ChatGPT, here's my business plan, transactions from the past 5 years, and current workplace hierarchy. How can I increase profits and expand my reach in my industry? How can i expand to other markets?"
Probably isn't as bad as it sounds at face. Most managers have no clue how to manage well, and business schools teach a lot of really wrong stuff. So it doesn't really end up much worse than it would otherwise have been. These companies do shake the tree a bit, though, and cause churn in the leadership ranks. But I have a hard time believing there aren't one or two decent-to-good managers riding the exit wave for every bad one.
Having a German PhD with top grade and an MBA from INSEAD/Harvard I worked for McKinsey Duesseldorf in their first Austrian assignment at their largest bank, Creditanstalt Bankverein in Vienna.. I liked the experience and the thin air of high altitude.. Some consultants aim at being hired by a client to implement their advice. An INSEAD colleague of mine advised as McKinsey a wealty noble estate in Southern Germany and then left to become its general manager. A German chemical company paid 250 000DM for a McKinsey report on its inorganic division . I was hired as boss of that division (80 million DM turnover in 1983) also to implement the report. I improved the profit by 1 million DM disregarding the report.
I'm a consultant who is not an MBA grad. We come in to do temporary work so the company doesn't have to hire highly skilled people full time. Demystifying consulting jargon, Model and analysis= use Excel to do simple math with information available to check assumptions. For all the engineers and scientists who are used to complex modeling programs that need a computer cluster, that's not what general consultants do, it's corporate speak.
"What if you scammed the gov money laundering through crypto, used child labor from africa, indirectly cause inflation, buy out homes the gov forecloses on for dirt cheap, then extort everyone like crazy, and wait for some rich guy to buy all the land at once for a project? Then just didn't give people their check because 'we are understaffed this week'. Oh, also, keep it in the family, we do. Its like crop rotation."
Idk if the kid was from McKinsey, but he came to my workplace at a construction firm and every one of us field workers knew he had NEVER been on a construction site after just 3 minutes into his "consulting" speech. Long story short: the company wasted our time and thousands on his utterly useless "services"
Didn't most companies begin with one or two people whom understood what they were doing from the ground up? Somewhere along a companies growth as time and people pass, there will be a disconnect between what is needed and what is wanted.
The former McKinsey employee offered such critical information for the public. I'm just wondering if perhaps he might consider looking in to the development of worker owned co-ops? Co-ops are democratically run and can offer an alternative to workers and consumers who are tired of being exploited.
"We were just following advice." You did it. You should've known better. You get punished. "We were just giving advice." You know the results of the last several times you gave this advice. You did know better. You get punished.
When my hubby worked at an oil company in the Netherlands, the company had an intern who just received Masters in BA, a very smart guy. The company hired McKinsey. This guy helped one consultant one time with his work. And the next week other consultants coming to the company were queuing up to get the intern’s consultation. The bosses didn’t even appreciated his brains and didn’t offer him a job, although he was a real value. He was from India.
The only time I've worked anywhere that wasn't riddled with corruption was when I started working for myself as a handyman. The larger the company or the institution, the more corrupt. We're pretty much all part of it willingly or not.
Master of Business Administration qualifies people to increase profit by cutting the wages bill. If computerised cars produce their own kind, we might all be driven to distraction.
McKinsey also has a huge influence because so many of its former employees get high ranking jobs in corporate America. For example the COO of Meta/ Facebook used to work for them
as usual the comments are pure gold. remember though, mckinsey is run by people. their consultants are people. these are people you shop with at the grocery store. you play softball with on the company team. you may attend church with them, they may be your neighbor. mckinsey is not some nameless, faceless entity. you yourself may have been or may become a "consultant". you'll be well compensated to give your position. eventually you'll move on to another job and forget all about the time you spent as a "consultant". i know this because i was a "consultant".
I don't think it's a stretch to say that McKinsey is one of the most ethically bankrupt companies in existence today. Especially when you consider the companies we normally associate with being evil are often following their advice.
Tech companies don't tolerate McKinsey. Tech companies do a better and honest job at consulting than McKinsey themselves and are steadily losing market share to them.
they will eventually do that. this may exist to draw out information.. one of the insidious functions of "free speech". i am quite sure this info is quite tame comparatively.
My dad worked for a company named Temco, which became Ling Temco, which became Ling Temco Vought, which became Chance Vought, which I believe became McDonald Douglas. Monopolies.
This is the truth for consulting companies in general. It's the reason why people think they hate capitalism, but they really hate this. This is basically fascism, where one group controls both the government and the corporations.
I think the best way for a company to cut costs is to ask EACH employee to submit ideas. The employees know the Deptartments they work in and know what needs to be fixed.
@blobmonster9494I’ve also dabbled in life insurance and they make it profitable by calling it recovering costs of training and replacement. I doubt the execute on all hourly (though not surprised if it was the case), but some hourly- like if they do something dangerous, especially.
The issue is the hydra within the system that allows “friends & family” to attain these contracts - insider knowledge & trading. Scratching each other’s backs!
Yah I have been noticing politicians in Canada caring more about ideas thrown around by corporate consulting than the voters' real needs and the ways which would improve them for the long term. Canada is slowly becoming a country that cares about short term goals. Something that I think fits right into right wing austerity attacks on the left wing.
My elder sister is a partner with Mckinsey and works with big pharma. Told her to quit and not work with them hope she listens. I chose to work in actual work building a FDA approved surgery tool with a leading orthopedic company, I chose to not do anything with these consulting firms/investment banks because I am the only born again Christian in my family
Major kudos to you but please dont conflate your morality with your faith. I think you will find that outside your own family there are just as many who share you morals who are not religious as those who do. I’m from a family of atheists/agnostics of catholic and Jewish background, and we similarly refuse to work for these ghouls (now that we know better)
It’s not about giving advice or sharing opinions. it’s about communication and a little bit of self-interest. Let me serve them the entire cake, and I promise, you’ll get your slice!
This video is spot on For Consultants to be able to "consult" they need both expertise and experience, so you'd expect these companies to hire middle-aged employees who've spent a decade working in a particular industry in a position of influence. Instead, McKinsey recruits graduates fresh out of university, but also advises senior management irrespective of industry/sector, even they don't have the expertise to consult. Instead, they're employed for other reasons, but mainly to take the blame. A common reason is to justify redudancies. Companies who need an excuse to lay off a lot of employees hire these consultants to advise them that they need to "restructure" and "cut costs", so that when they make people redundant they can claim they're acting under advisement. As an ex who worked for Bain & Co once told me bluntly, "my job is to find a way to fire people".
Obama Care was made by McKinsey & Company. I was with McKinsey at the time, not on this assignment but I knew about it. McKinsey takes no blame for the fallout. I left after a couple of years, went on to better and more fulfilling work. McKinsey work will slowly suck out your soul and quickly fill your wallet.
Well, that would be an example of some good work by McKenzie, then. Obamacare isn’t perfect but, especially for its time, it was a pretty ballsy step towards more widely available healthcare
you think liberals or republicans are more likely to help Mckinsey? We're so focused on state choice abortion, and "woke" trans politics to really fight the issues that matter
Ah, you know Bernays, congratulations! Wanna take a gander at who the founder of Netflix is? Yeah, Bernays's nephew. Unreal. The social programming is absolutely ubiquitous at this point, marketing has essentially made it's way into EVERY type of media being produced and consumed. I wonder what Freud would think of all this.
Thanks for this. I'm 60 and have been watching McKinsey destroy companies for most of my career & never get blamed for anything. They are a horrible cancer in our economy.
If McKinsey can't figure it out, the chances are low that other people are going to manage to figure it out.
If you call in consultants to save you from a bad situation... It's because it was a bad situation.
They are part of the criminal network that can not be touched. Until now...their days are counted...
Why are we allowing them to destroy us?
@@MariaCarmen-wb7gv Because there is a very much planned narrative behind it. We are controlled by fear and MSM and politicians feed us all the time with thier lies. It is painful to wake up and they know it - but it will soon change....
@@Leto2ndAtreides They don't figure out how to make things better. They figure out how the co can make more money doing whatever unethical thing others would never suggest.
I got fired from a job as the head mechanic for a trucking company 30 years ago. The CEO said that I wasn't working hard enough. He said that all the previous mechanics were rebuilding engines, transmissions, drive axles, etc all the time and that I wasn't doing that. I wasn't doing all those heavy repairs because the trucks were not breaking, they were all out on the road working. Stupid me, I thought I was there to reduce breakdowns.
So you invested your staff into preventive maintenance , which in itself saved the company on expensive repair bills.
And through some twisted logic these consultants told your boss you were expendable.
What a bunch of leeches. And your superiors where idiots in taking such advice.
It's the classic case of a person doing their job so well, it appears that they are doing nothing. I'm also curious as to what happens to those sorts of short-sighted companies after they lose their key players
How frustrating and moronic is that?
Short sighted is right in their world
And there you are.
Greed and power.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
McKinsey: Use a smaller glass.
"The glass is refillable."
"We need to make the glass unfillable and charge the consumer for each one. The markup on new product is greater and your profits will be greater as a result."
@@tyree9055Planned obsolescence has been around for decades and now applies to everything, including civilization.
Good one! 😂
Comment section winning
I am an ex McKinsey "consultant" form one of the European offices. All you mention here is absolutely true - and more. When I tried to act as "Whistleblower", they shut me down and put a linen of silence, delay and deny around it. I am happy to talk to you, if you want to reach out
Did this get noticed from them or not? Please update us!
@@anotherrandomtexan25 of course it did. And of course they put a tombal stone on this, supported by the indifference of everyone.
It is normal. It is McK politics
@@andreunz they are really into dirty office politics, one of my colleagues went to work for Indian office she suffered a horrible time .
@@niyaza70mohamed50 Does not surprise me at all. Constant patronizing and harassment and alcoholism, is part of their mission. If you have the guts to survive it, you make it to the next level
They were hired by ZF Friedrichshafen and the advise seems to be to fire as many people as possible. It's so sad to watch....
I was a Manager for Walmart for 10 years. On my 10th year I was told my salary had Topped Out and that I would get no more raises. I was then offered the job as a District Manager. Instead of being over one store, I would be responsible for up to 7 stores. If I took the job I would be eligible for raises again. I would take the District Manager job while on my single store manager wage. I asked them if I took the District Manager job would they bump my store manager wage to the District manager wage. Amazingly my current wage as Store Manager was the wage for District Manager. So my wage for one store would now be the wage for seven stores. I said nope and left after 2 weeks. Walmart was shocked I did not accept their forced proposal. A few months later they sent 2 home office suits to interview me and take me out to lunch. I said no need. You told me I could no longet get raises in my current posistion, so I left to be a store manager for another company that does not top out wages. Walmart still uses the wage top out policy to this day. My family member had her salary top out and worked for 7 more years for Walmart with no raises in wage, until she retired. This is a HORRIBLE policy that punishes long term employees.
It's all about corporate greed, one that hinges on "maximizing profits" and not one bit concerned about everyone else.
@@Joyce-v7fSounds like Uber Technologies. Drivers get no increases when costs go up for owning the vehicle, but riders' fares go up with every lawsuit that gets filed against Uber. And that SURGE pricing is outright ridiculous in some cities. Drivers can only make money on surges to recover their losses, say on a Friday night, then Uber penalizes drivers the next night by not giving them rides or giving them rides to known riders who have a pattern of cancelling on their drivers so Uber can keep that cancellation fee. Lyft is no better. It's like they're the same company! Greedy corporations are destroying the middle class plus making everyone "insurance poor."
Thank goodness somebody came up with a better way to travel, if having to use an app as a dispatcher to get a ride! HUM Rideshare is allowing drivers to get 100% of fare with NO SURGE PRICING EVER for the RIDER!! Only in AZ right now and will be opening up in Idaho soon, if not already there! Drivers are able to ACT like REAL INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS on the HUM app. It's Rideshare Done Right!
I hope you don’t still hate the “Demonrats” and thinks that socialism is evil.
They need not raise prices on any merchandise as long as an employee works for the same salary. How does that sound for Walmart ?
@@Vacillate-v9e Speaking of raising prices on merchandise; I got to see the mark up and profit margins on each product in my store and it blew my mind. Something that cost Walmart pennies; like 8 cents per item Walmart was selling at $4.97 an item; this was very very common.
CEOs getting paid millions, and STILL they need to hire consulting firms to tell them what to do. You would think that for millions of dollars, a CEO could actually do the job themselves. Why are we paying CEOs so much money? For what?
Consulting is a fancy name for kick backs.
You make an excellent point. It should be obvious, but I never really thought about it. And don't forget, there's also a board of directors who are experts in their fields.
My ex-business partner and I were once hired by the pharmaceutical giant, Scherimg-Pough, in Memphis, Tennessee to make a competitive product to Slimfast. We had a small company in California that made Sports Nutrition products, especially powdered drinks.
The first time we flew back to Tennessee, we were both shocked at the unbelievable facilities this company had, and all of its lettered employees.
And here they were hiring two guys with a startup company in California to do fairly simple, but creative work they could not accomplish themselves.
CEOs getting paid millions, with consulting firms doing most of their work, and yet being bailed out by the federal government via taxpayer money.
@@mtrest4how do they get kickbacks by organizing layoffs?
According to the video, consulting firms offer business intelligence (it's corporate espionage). It's not about the knowing the best way to do something, it's about countering your opposition. Or from the consulting firm's POV, about playing a bunch of greedy CEOs and government officials against each other for fun and profit.
I worked for a large competitor of this company. I was a data analyst. They kept trying to fit the data to their conclusions rather than the other way around. They were creepy and exploitative.
There were some good people there, but they didn't last long. Most of the people at these places are...not people I'd ever choose to be around again.
Psychopath? Manipulators? Liars? Drug dealers are nicer and more honest people than most corporate america
@@Juan_deep at least drug dealers generally support the local economy
@@CubanSpartan they don't you junkie the money goes to Colombia and then Chinese firms
People's desire for wealth has created trust issues from the start. Their social standing has nothing to do with their mental capacity to harm others to better themselves.
That's what the rich do, reverse engineer OUR economy around THEIR wants (as opposed to needs).
Deloitte is similar to McKinsey in many ways. Back in 2010 I worked for a bank and they paid Deloitte several million dollars to come in and tell them how to "improve" their business. The employees had been telling the leadership all along what needed to change, but Deloitte came in and said the same things and got a big payday for it. I anonymously had to vent about that one on the company feedback page.
Deloitte, KPMG, EY and PWC are the big 4 in Australia rorting Aussie governments. Absolute scum. Useless flogs. But Executive doesn't listen unless it comes from them.
Also Boos, Allen, Hamilton
Status trumps knowledge or action in a screwed up world. Like this one. Unless you have the right status, your actions and knowledge are irrelevant. IF you have the right status, your actions and knowledge can be dead wrong - Covid proved that for me conclusively.
Yes I heard of Blackrock and Vanguard owning every CEO in every company before but never heard of McKinsey prior to this. But then again we heard of Private Equity companies like Bain, Carlyle Group and KKR playing similar tactics as this one and some of us are delayed from responding to this because we heard of similar companies playing the same stuff.
Some of us are delayed from responding to the allegations at McKinsey because in some parts of the country we have to deal with Venture Capitalists playing the same tactics to start up companies here.
Reports like this are absolutely critical, while the public is so easily distracted by superficial social and political issues, companies like this fly under the radar and reap havoc, keep up the great work!
Just like Black Rock, Yum! Brand and Koch Industries.
It's amazing how the lack of morals in corporations just keeps getting worse.
Anything humans run end up that way.
So, they help corporate leeches be as leechy as possible.
well said!
They realize the actual American dream for their clients. Unattainable by 99.47% of citizens.
Absolutely and that's what we need to say over and over again.
These consultants from McKinsey often appear to make really stupid decisions. I'm not saying they don't work hard but, we got one in our offices that has made all the work take three times as long. We're massively backlogged now and the industry, as a whole, has never moved more slowly - due to our loss of productivity- of which we are a driver. The Execs are too removed from the work to realize that the advice they were given is essentially poison. Hell, maybe they do know and are trying to tank the company in order to pick over the salvage. Either way, bad experience.
@@theprecipiceofreasonSounds like most of these guys are just con artists just out to make a quick buck .
We need to clean up corporations. It's clear this company is working against average Americans.
"WE" are not allowed......
And against Canadians too, McKinsey is knee-deep in China-Trudeau connections.
And the bigger picture is the people running the companies that are comfortable with this mindset. Millions of individuals in the southern states vote against their own interests, too, which support these scumbags. You cannot vote one way, and then question when you’re shit on every single day. 😂
YOU and everyone else have *NO* chance. None. If you lack coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, communities, and opportunities, then you ain't NOTHIN'. Yer a zero. No influence. No effect. That's the reality. #copium
You DO realize that the "United States" is a literal Federal Corporation, right? Read US Code Title 28 Subsection 3002 Paragraph 15 if you don't believe me, it's an easy google search, just copy and paste.
Love seeing real investigative journalism
It’s amazing how the world has changed in the last 20 years you get more investigative journalism from UA-cam then from larger outlets, like TV channels and newspapers and magazines
@@AlejandroTaylorEscribano But whatabout the heartwarming stories? Or reporting on the crimes where everyone involved knows each other - don't you want Americans to feel safe?
@@arcanondrum6543 I don’t understand what you mean.
@@AlejandroTaylorEscribano I think Arcanondrum is mocking cable news' habits of covering up their ties to their advertising partners by tokenistically mixing in the occasional human interest story or non-random crime.
People only say that about subjects they want to hear about. Plenty of people investigate plenty of things that get met with naysayers, haters, and threats against them.
Like how about SA’s in the military, do people love that journalism? Do they even care?!
Or SA’s to children?!
Do people love that journalism or do people STILL call those people HER FAULTS, attention seekers, Me Too’s, liars, and sluts.
Even though actual man of Christ, Derek Prince said back in the 1980’s one in four girls under ten are molested. And one in five boys are. That number is going up. Cause morality is way down. STILL People deny these problems exist.
Cause it makes their comfortable lies so uncomfortable.
People only seem to like investigative journalism when it’s about how their money is being stolen and something about celebrities.
Don’t say people love investigative journalism.
In the last decade more investigative journalists have been murdered than any other time in history combined.
People hate investigative journalism unless it benefits their entertainment, their potential for money being returned to their class, or for their ego.
The REAL investigative journalism is about MORAL DILEMMAS that most people prefer to not get uncomfortable learning about.
I have so much love and appreciation for people like you who are bravely exposing what is seldom known to the average person, but negatively impacts humanity. Bravo and keep up the hard work!
When I was in banking we had a term that we were about to be McKinsey’d, layoffs and restructuring. I seldom saw any real benefit other than temporary cost reductions in order to prepare a bank to look good in a merger. Many mergers resulted in back tracking to older, less efficient technologies. I was laid off in one of these but redeployed to a new department. The most destructive change was the elimination of defined benefit pensions. For 19 years of banking, I receive a paltry $200 per month pension when similar public pensions would yield 10-15 times that.
John Oliver did a piece on McKinsey. It's worth looking up.
It's one of the most shameful audiences I've ever seen. Everyone was in disgust with that company at every revelation.
LOL I WAS LIKE I HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE LOL YES DO RECOMMEND TO WATCH THE JOHN OLIVER EPISODE ALSO
This one goes a lot harder on McKinsey.
THIS piece led off with the guy that ran for President despite the fact that he was Mayor of a Town that doubled in size when college was in session. I've seen some important work done to expose said Mayor. You can watch them as well, you're just 2 clicks away.
It's one of his best episodes
I work in government, and I work frequently with consultants. I can tell you that the primary reason that they are used is because if employees or even management have recommendations, neither the public nor elected officials will be willing to accept those recommendations unless they are verified by a consultant. You can be saying for 20 years that a particular change needs to occur and no one will take it seriously, but once a consultant comes in and says the same thing, it's taken as gospel truth. I think the same thing probably happens in private companies as well; shareholders (and CEO's by extension) just won't take action based off of the recommendations of their employees unless a third party comes in and makes the same recommendation. 95% of the time, the consultant will just come up with a report that pretty much says exactly what the organization wanted the report to say.
That’s why the whole country needs to unionize in their jobs
Problem with hierarchical systems and trust.
Governments are basically low quality corporations that never experienced too much pressure to really up their game... More of a generic, monopoly problem.
Most of the CONSULTANTS are former employees.
The 'never a profit in your own land' routine.
Americans are socially trained to focus on who is saying something more than what is actually being said.
Great reporting. The layers upon layers of corruption in this country is staggering!
Apparently multiple countries and why China is being fucked up in Africa.
The inauguration of '017 proved to me that racketeering has more power in the US than anything that would truly constitute law enforcement. Yet the people in charge wonder why they're so poorly respected.
In the whole world dude. Not just America.
Frightening
To big to fix. Sad!
Was a nurse for 1 year and then I realized how much our system is broken and got out, never been happier in life
A further book by Mariana Mazzucato called The Big Con, How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies.
Also, recommend 'the value of everything' as an excellent overview of corporate capitalism (constantly reference this book and read it multiple times).
@grantbeerling4396 Thanks! Noting both down
I used to be a corporate consultant. My last job dealt with "dead peasant insurance" - a company putting life insurance on their officers and workforce to be paid out to the company, not to the family, as a method of raising capital in the event of death - and that was enough for me. I'm poor now, but at least I have self-respect.
Need laws to prevent third parties from taking out insurance on others without their consent.
😮
That is a freaking horror story 😳
Banks and loan companies do this to insure they are payed in full for the deceased loan. It actually helps people because the bank doesn’t get hit with loses and turn that on to increased charges for consumers.
@@Sandra-dt4ecyou fell for the propaganda
“You worked for a company that was fixing bread prices” is such a cold line. Mayo Pete puckered up REAL quick
I've worked for many corporations and government organizations. Only one smaller organization I worked for had any altruism at all. All of the others were focused on profit, power, influence, and doing all around scummy things.
You need to watch that again. That's not at ALL what he said. He covered his ass like an attorney.
oh come on he did a fine job that was pretty funny
His response speaks so many volumes, because this guy is capable of tap dancing his way out of any corner. I've never seen him so incapable of generating an eloquent response before.
...and now you know why a nobody had MSM giving him so much positive coverage.
I voted for Obama BUT he didn't give us single payer, he gave us what Insurance companies wanted. MSM gushed about him as well, didn't tell us much about him as well. Same for Hillary. She had plenty of data to look up for ourselves but what MSM never said was that no one was attending her Rallies yet "somehow" she faced exactly the person that she was set-up to lose against.
This where Pete Buttigieg came from. It's still mysterious to me how a guy goes from this, to mediocre mayor of podunk town, and then directly to national political figure with such quickness. 🤔
Nah, you know exactly how it happened. He made connections with these reptiles.
Who you know, what you will do for them in return for what they will do for you and the power of a slickly controlled narrative.
@@matthewcaldwell8100 bread by them
He worked drug interdiction in northern Afghanistan.
It takes only three letters of the alphabet to explain it all.
Thank you for this, having worked for this company for years, I realized that In these uncertain times, it's more important than ever to have a solid understanding of how to manage your finances, invest wisely and navigate economic downturns. But my primary concern is how to grow my reserve of $240k which has been sitting duck since forever with zero to no gains, sure I'm all in on the long term game, but with my savings are lying waste to inflation and my portfolio losing gains everyday, I need a remedy.
If you need advice, consider speaking with a financial advisor. Don't get me wrong, you can do it on your own, but financial advisors have a lot more knowledge and expertise in this area.
You are completely right, Advisors have information and paths that are not disclosed to the public.. I profited £560k in 2023 under the tutelage of my Fiduciary-counselor. Am I selling? Absolutely not.. I am going to sit back and observe how this all plays out.
That's impressive! I could really use the expertise of this manager for my dwindling portfolio. Who’s the professional guiding you?
@@christian-x6r4h Rebecca Lynne Buie is the licensed coach I use. Just research the name. You'd find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
@@pentagon1985 She appears to be well-educated and well-read. I ran an online search on her name and came across her website; thank you for sharing.
A guy i used to know was working in this company. He committed suicude due to work pressure.....
He was a really helpful person
fall bro sert to hear that
Here in Canada McKinsey was being used a lot as well for Government consulting etc. but my understanding is that they are no longer being used by many companies because of the scandals. My wife works for a Crown Corp and they were told last year that McKinsey has been banned from all future consulting.
Of all the countries whom industries like consulting firms concern, I'm left wondering why the US is always last to respond appropriately. It's part of the reason I call the US the "Formerly United Corporations of Kochistan", because of the role of the Koch brothers and their astroturf in funding the malfeasance and manufacturing consent.
How do they manufacture content
@@JJ-vp3bd It's a term for the M.O. by which cable news manipulates people into approving of policies they wouldn't naturally support
@@JJ-vp3bd Deceiving the people into approving something against all of their own best interests, which they would've rejected otherwise. United Statish cable news has been infamous for this since at least the 990s.
The gov probably will hire a gov. Consult to keep every dime.
Consultants are generally hired to come up with the solution that management already wants.
This.
Greasing of the palms.
A well hidden level of corruption runs everything in these "sophisticated" societies.
And creates the opposite of the "prosperity" here, vs what we derisively label the "Third World".
Consultants are professional scapegoats. That’s all.
Never forget, a business major's greatest aspiration is often to work for a company specifically like this. That isn't a coincidence that these companies cause more damage than good.
what do you mean?
@@warnegoodman McKinsey are hypercredentialists, focused primarily on prestige, position, title etc. Only the very best grads and the children of the immensely wealthy end up working there. What those sort of people want for a corporation, government or society isn't necessarily what you or I would want. For example, for the management of a large business in trouble, McKinsey might counsel that it be broken up and its parts sold off. This would make shareholders immensely wealthy, but would be damaging for employment in the area where this business operated. Those people would be better off if the business sought alternative financing, or restructured its business in an attempt to keep operating and keep its staff working.
@@warnegoodman you get more money outta making the world worse over making anything better nowadays -_-
@@liz_violet every person I know who's ever taken business degree or wanted it, including several family members who actually have are narcissistic horrible people. Just like bosses.
I think it really is just the natural order that certain bad personalities are attracted to certain jobs of high power, so naturally things will go horribly. It's just that it takes one good movement to go well to, so things don't go south tooo bad
What do you mean that isn't a coincidence?
I recall one of my economics professors saying that many people think that politicians and business leaders ask economists to recommend what should be done.. but what is in fact most often the case is that politicians and business leaders tell economists what will be done and the economists are asked to come up with a report recommending it.
There how people make most of their decisions, not just businesses and govt. Post-hoc rationalisation
It’s funny how as a student of economics I was simultaneously encouraged to go work for McKinsey while learning how much damage they have done to people and our economy.
I work in consulting. These days I feel like consultings primary purpose to give corporations justification for decisions they were going to do anyway. Consultants just provide a layer of justification for an action but often have little impact over the actual decision being made in the first place
That's what consulting's always been.
Need to sway those stockholders.
How often do the consultants get involved in decision-making that is often bad for the everyday worker is it like 90%, what do you guys think
Didn’t make it any less nauseating for me
Governments hire consultants for plausible deniability. Prolly Use AI for worst outcome for opponents.
Never ask
a man his salary
a woman her age
what a McKinsey consultant was doing with that pharma company
That saying is so cringe. ALWAYS ask EVERY man what his salary is so that we all know if we are being screwed over by upper management!
@@TheAmericanAmerican
Exactly.
Under socialist theory, we're supposed to be openly discussing our pay with other workers - to make sure none of us is getting screwed-over.
This is what people need to be talking about, we need more voices like this.
MSM won't touch these stories exposing corporate malfeasance and greed. It's such a joke when right wingers call MSM "radical leftist".
Those of us with a voice would be under threat of lawsuit(s) and could lose our home (at 60 years old). I tried 4 times, through various lawyers and once even directly, to be an SEC whistleblower on insider trading. How naive did I have to be to finally realize that the SEC is like the fox guarding the hen house.
I finally just quit a greewashing fraud, and they were so proud to have their CEO at the WEF. Thieves, insider trading, and money laundering. I'm beyond disgusted. And like most lying psychopaths, they got uglier when they realized that I discovered their BS. (It was a retaliatory hostile environment, but good luck proving that.)
I signed on for a great paying job, but they only needed me to make these frauds look legitimate. I was hired for a position that didn't exist, for a PRODUCT that didn't exist. I hate corporate America
These businesses need to be brought to justice for all the damage they've done!!
This is what journalism should be, great job. McKinsey has its grasp in the company I work at and layoffs are on the way.
The consulting interview preps I’ve observed always end with the same advice : layoffs, close US production, offshore the jobs. Pretty standard advice from consultant kids
They send kids to do a man’s job.
Journalism like this is gonna have people revolting
One can dream and hope. However, I think too many people are either overwhelmed by life and all of the systems that have been working against them. Or they are so deeply entrenched in their beliefsystems altered and manipulated by all of the propaganda, believe the opposite of truth and are losing so much energy hating "the other", whichever group of people it may at that time.
Not enough people know about it. And some actually support it because they think it will benefit them.
And yes but sometimes this gets dismissed as "Conspiracy Theories" like this.
White American male chiming in: I have met entirely too many middle class Americans who are incapable of seeing Disney as anything other than a vague cultural simulacra, or worse they’re neck deep in Disney culture. Those people tune me out whenever I try to speak about specific social justice issues - it is the case that I have some success if I mostly listen to them tell me stories about their vacations or family celebrations and wait to point out positive ways that real social justice and human cooperation has benefited them.
To be fair, your average American is already pretty revolting. 🥁
I love when this sort of thing gets revealed.
????? How about doing a story about how food shelves and food banks really work? A lot of people, even food shelf workers, mistakenly believe that large corporations kindly donate their products to food shelves (via the big regional food banks like Second Harvest for redistribution to local food shelves) out of the goodness of their hearts. In reality, what happens is that the Farm Bill provides for an "enhanced" fed tax credit equal to cost + 50% of retail value for items "donated" to food banks. This form of tax credit means the corporate food suppliers actually are getting paid (just like the former child tax credits issued checks) amounts that are probably pretty close to what they would get by selling their products to retailers. The bonus for these corporations is that this is a profitable way to unload products that do not sell and that are close to the sell-by date or even significantly beyond the sell-by date. Some corporations even package products specifically to go to food banks which are heavily processed and filled with cheap unhealthy ingredients no one would choose from a grocery store shelf.
Because corporations in this country have a mandate to increase shareholder wealth above all else, unless these companies are actually making a profit from "donating" products, they could actually be sued by their own shareholders. That is why they make sure that every "donation" benefits their bottom line and that is why food shelves are full of unhealthy, heavily processed products with inferior ingredients that contribute to chronic health problems like diabetes, obesity and heart disease, and many are also past their sell-by dates.
Let's stop pretending these corporate food giants are being nice to the food insecure and expose what that they are making money off of the most vulnerable members of our population.
As an example take a look at the fabulous new Second Harvest food bank building in the Mpls suburb, Brooklyn Center (" A guided tour of Second Harvest Heartland's new Brooklyn Park facility" on YT) that has Cargill, General Mills and Target logos all over it, despite the fact that the MN taxpayers spent over $18 million on this. The fact that these corporations control these food banks is obvious and they are controlling them because it is profitiable for them. Second Harvest makes it sound like there is a lot of fresh wholesome food, but that is NOT the case; it's almost ALL unhealthy processed food. It is NOT the case that over 60% of their product assortment is fresh (lean protein and produce), as they claim.
The other catch is that these food bank packages are NOT forwarded to local food shelves free of charge; they have to pay huge delivery fees and the lightest weight, cheapest foods to get delivered are processed foods.
The public has a right to know what is really going on with this scheme.
At the very least, the government should not be giving these enhanced tax credits unless the products meet health and freshness guidelines.
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Food banks are full of 90% poison. Better off starving than eating that garbage.
Seems like you did the investigation already 😂
Thank you for this comment, I'll try to keep it in mind and spread the word as best I can
Right? I'm trying to get a gleening and grow a row program going for our local food bank, and the legalese and regulations that I'm trying to wade through make my brain hurt. Idk if I can make this happen.
Because as things stand now, everything collected has to go to a central distribution center, and then will be sent out to smaller local food banks. So everything from either a gleening or grow a row program would have to be collected, driven across my state, and then we might get some back, or we might not. And that's not something my local community is going to be ok with.
I could probably convince them that anything extra that our food bank doesn't need should go to areas that don't have as much support. But they want to know that what they collected and grew is going to benefit the family down the road that's struggling, and make sure that the kids that go to school with their own kids are being fed first before sending stuff off for someone else to decide who should get it.
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Thanks for the journalistic editorial piece. More informative and professional than the established institutions of professionals that provide information.
In Germany they have two workers representatives on any company executive board.
Those two board workers can be bought off, just like our government/mafia controlled unions in the USA.
That's because Germany is a first world country
@@thecianinator 😬
@@thecianinatorthat's why Germany is doing worse than they used to
It is called Social Contract, Martun321. Between management and workers. All stakeholders. And shame on you for being such a management proxie.
THIS YOUNG LADY IS A TRUE JOURNALISTS ‼️
Edward Snowden did a great breakdown in his book Permanent Record on the rise of consultants, particularly those working in government. I have yet to see any consultant that I have had to work with as a city planner that actually created anything new, innovative, or creative. Civil servants do the majority of work and consultants are there for the ride. It's a role meant to suck out government employee value and relevance and, in this respect, I guess that McKinsey succeeded.
This has quickly become one of my favorite channels.❤
Consultants, lobbyists. Same thing. Really excellent reporting, definitely needs more attention. Thank you for the excellent, enlightening video.
Is Boeing a McKinsey customer?
If not I bet they soon will be.
I hope this is a rhetorical question. Of course they are.
Probably that or another big consultancy group
@@nlysts willing to bet Deloitte, KPMG or PWC.
Boeing is indeed a Deloitte client and has been for years.
If a Disney park never have a failed ride injury because of adequate maintenance, that child's death after firing the maintenance is on Disney. Since they were warned, it's effectively murder by willful neglect.
I’m sure the logic is, “ cutting maintenance puts money in your pocket now and going forward. Sure, something bad might happen as a result but who cares and that’s in the future and it might not even happen. You’ll save this money forever. And your insurance carrier will have to pay the wrongful death claim when and if it comes. “
@Watamata....Didn't FORD have some kind of deal where they would rather pay for lawsuits from some vehicle that had lots of failures rather than fix the actual problem? FORD believed that it would be cheaper to pay the law suits and fix the vehicles. Talk about COLD-BLOODED!!!
@@jtc1947 Ford tractors denied lack of foot rests was a danger of falling off model 9N Subsequent model 8N had foot rests standard.
@@barneycarparts Thanks for Your INFO. The article that I read concerned some car ( maybe a Pinto?) Si that what brought about UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED?
@@jtc1947 As I Remember that was the Chevy Corvair. Ralph Nader testified before congress and wrote a book about it called "UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED"
We need more journalism like this
The new model will be for Ai to be the new CEO that way the company will not have to shell out money for a human CEO. But you know that’s just going to make the companies richer, not their employees.
More Perfect Union ... I’m impressed by your reporting, your sleuthing, your focus and passion for diving deeper, for “following the money”, looking into political and corporate structures that are greedy, sneaky, deceitful ... taking advantage of the American people. We need third party watchers ... to keep moral integrity intact. That was the foundation of straight forward journalism, as well as at the heart of holding businesses, individuals, owners of corporations, politicians, institutions, et al accountable.
Thank you!!!
Seems like 2 primary functions of business strategy consults are:
1) Executives can hire them so that they themselves aren't blamed if decisions turn out poorly
2) Helps businesses who are falling behind versus competitors essentially tap into knowledge about how competitors are practicing
Correction of US economy and society starts with shutting down McKinsey
McKinsey is also listed on The World Economic Forum partners list.
I wish we lived in an idiocracy
@@Tarantula-hawk we do
They do suck. Never cross one of their "ring fence" types ("best mates" with the exec) in an a org they operate in - they will make it their mission to have you fired. If a boss is an "alum" think again about that company - the mental attitude never leaves. Never take a job at a place McK or any competitors is "reorganizing", and if you see them arrive find another job ASAP. Life to too short to deal with their shiny but deranged BS ?
I don't think this is the single company's issue but the issue of extreme capitalism.
Outstanding video! I had no idea this company was so deep into American corporations. I watched “House of lies”, but had no idea these people were that powerful!
Best journalism I have seen in I can't even remember how long! I'm not used to journalism even existing anymore. Thank you!
I had a phone call night before my hip replacement. They needed 5,000.00 deposit on surgery. I said call it off, I don't have 5,000.00!! Call it off? Lose money? Of course they said I could pay it later. I never did. They tried to charge me for a test on old hip. I said, never said a word, I would've said no, not my problem. Didn't pay that either. FIGHT YOUR BILLS!! Refuse!
When was this? Where was this? I guess you didn’t(don’t ?) have insurance?
I hate to admit but I also used the healthcare system and bucked the bill. At 36, I realize how ignorant I was because taxpayers pick up the slack. Real change starts in our local government offices - more stand-up citizens need to get involved.
@@itskeagan3004dude… in literally every other western democracy, the taxpayers foot the bill. It’s called HEALTHCARE.
Money is power. Take away money and power evaporates
@@VladaldTrumptin people should pay for their healthcare, that was my point.
I have worked as a consultant. I worked for a company who needed a software developer to build a tool. I work as a software developer. That makes sense as a consultant cost, the company isn't going to hire someone full time for a temporary job, I know enough about my field to make the tools.
In what world does someone who has never managed their own company have the skills necessary to teach other people who are managers how to manage?
managing is a cover, they're just there telling companies how to max profits, and rob the working class tax payers
I don't think they do. Like the piece says, they're just a rationalization service, dressing terrible business decisions in business jargon to legitimize them.
yeah... these are just a bunch of suits who believe that their opinion is worth gold. they have no actual experience in these fields, they just compare to other companies in the same fields that they've consulted for. i'm sure some of them have valuable business degrees but let's be honest, this is one job that has ALREADY been replaced by chatgpt. "hey, ChatGPT, here's my business plan, transactions from the past 5 years, and current workplace hierarchy. How can I increase profits and expand my reach in my industry? How can i expand to other markets?"
Probably isn't as bad as it sounds at face. Most managers have no clue how to manage well, and business schools teach a lot of really wrong stuff. So it doesn't really end up much worse than it would otherwise have been. These companies do shake the tree a bit, though, and cause churn in the leadership ranks. But I have a hard time believing there aren't one or two decent-to-good managers riding the exit wave for every bad one.
when the people managing don't know how to manage or when the CEO needs someone to blame if the board starts asking questions
Having a German PhD with top grade and an MBA from INSEAD/Harvard I worked for McKinsey Duesseldorf in their first Austrian assignment at their largest bank, Creditanstalt Bankverein in Vienna.. I liked the experience and the thin air of high altitude.. Some consultants aim at being hired by a client to implement their advice. An INSEAD colleague of mine advised as McKinsey a wealty noble estate in Southern Germany and then left to become its general manager. A German chemical company paid 250 000DM for a McKinsey report on its inorganic division . I was hired as boss of that division (80 million DM turnover in 1983) also to implement the report. I improved the profit by 1 million DM disregarding the report.
Ouch, I'm terribly sorry for your brainwashing degree and sellout career. May God have mercy on your soul.
@@ReapingTheHarvest I am sorry for your state of mind wishing you sanity.The name of God should not be used in idiocy.
McKinsey: Stop sending more money
Here's your bill, $400 million.
I'm a consultant who is not an MBA grad. We come in to do temporary work so the company doesn't have to hire highly skilled people full time. Demystifying consulting jargon, Model and analysis= use Excel to do simple math with information available to check assumptions. For all the engineers and scientists who are used to complex modeling programs that need a computer cluster, that's not what general consultants do, it's corporate speak.
insane. "what if you just didn't do basic safety measures? you would save so much money!!"
watch fight club, Im sure it was all McKinsey's idea to not do the recalls.
"What if you scammed the gov money laundering through crypto, used child labor from africa, indirectly cause inflation, buy out homes the gov forecloses on for dirt cheap, then extort everyone like crazy, and wait for some rich guy to buy all the land at once for a project? Then just didn't give people their check because 'we are understaffed this week'. Oh, also, keep it in the family, we do. Its like crop rotation."
They got to so much money by being an ass. Just by stopping being an ass they will lose most of their money.
Thank you for calling out Buttigieg, people aren’t as hard on him as is needed
@Matthew...Pardon my confusion, but where does PETE show up in this vid? Pls advise when HE was a consultant? Serious question??
@@jtc1947He shows up at 1:00, and from a quick search it appears he worked for McKinsey from 2007-2010.
@@jtc1947 In the beginning of the film. I don't think they mentioned his name, but that was him.
@@Beverly-z4t Thanks for info maybe slow it down and re-look??
He doesn't work for them. He found out what they did and he left the firm.
You're missing the point of the current problem
Greed must be contagious because nobody seems able to stop this trend.
Damn this little Lady is so on point to expose the above the law companies !
Idk if the kid was from McKinsey, but he came to my workplace at a construction firm and every one of us field workers knew he had NEVER been on a construction site after just 3 minutes into his "consulting" speech. Long story short: the company wasted our time and thousands on his utterly useless "services"
Didn't most companies begin with one or two people whom understood what they were doing from the ground up? Somewhere along a companies growth as time and people pass, there will be a disconnect between what is needed and what is wanted.
Its a billion dollar company. How stupid to act like its some startup
Have you done a story about Gov Abbott’s push to privatize education - vouchers- in TX w/ funding by west TX billionaires.
The former McKinsey employee offered such critical information for the public. I'm just wondering if perhaps he might consider looking in to the development of worker owned co-ops? Co-ops are democratically run and can offer an alternative to workers and consumers who are tired of being exploited.
The former McKinsey employee needs to hide somewhere in a similar format like Edward Snowden and Julian Assaunge had to do.
This was the point of Unions and we see how that went. Want to ruin a plan - add money.
@@blogdesign7126 lol
How can I find a list of McKinsey's clients so I can boycott every company they have ever offered consulting to
That will be every ultra large company that runs this country. Your only way is to strictly use local businesses
I was going to suggest going off-grid.
Don't forget all the governments who get bills from McKinsey too, they're everywhere.
You might have to leave your own country, not kidding.
@@chachacameland the locals buy big companies products
This is a very well-produced video. Who funded this production?
Thank you for this. This is the reporting we need.
"We were just following advice." You did it. You should've known better. You get punished.
"We were just giving advice." You know the results of the last several times you gave this advice. You did know better. You get punished.
They all want someone else to blame, and will pay a lot for a fall guy!
When my hubby worked at an oil company in the Netherlands, the company had an intern who just received Masters in BA, a very smart guy. The company hired McKinsey. This guy helped one consultant one time with his work. And the next week other consultants coming to the company were queuing up to get the intern’s consultation.
The bosses didn’t even appreciated his brains and didn’t offer him a job, although he was a real value. He was from India.
I hope this guy really knows his worth. Those actions show it. Screw corporations…
The only time I've worked anywhere that wasn't riddled with corruption was when I started working for myself as a handyman. The larger the company or the institution, the more corrupt. We're pretty much all part of it willingly or not.
That’s why McKinsey is so successful, network and zero dogma
Master of Business Administration qualifies people to increase profit by cutting the wages bill. If computerised cars produce their own kind, we might all be driven to distraction.
Mc Kinsey plays on both sides like mercenaries
Yah it is like if you have the same consultant for multiple competitors that consultant is basically a capitalist mercenary.
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Patrick Wood ua-cam.com/video/e-6Sypxk5mo/v-deo.html
Pirates.
nah, pirates have more honor than this
McKinsey also has a huge influence because so many of its former employees get high ranking jobs in corporate America. For example the COO of Meta/ Facebook used to work for them
I worked with them 40 years ago and they haven't changed a bit.
Did anything in this video stand out to you?
as usual the comments are pure gold.
remember though, mckinsey is run by people. their consultants are people. these are people you shop with at the grocery store. you play softball with on the company team. you may attend church with them, they may be your neighbor. mckinsey is not some nameless, faceless entity.
you yourself may have been or may become a "consultant". you'll be well compensated to give your position. eventually you'll move on to another job and forget all about the time you spent as a "consultant". i know this because i was a "consultant".
I don't think it's a stretch to say that McKinsey is one of the most ethically bankrupt companies in existence today. Especially when you consider the companies we normally associate with being evil are often following their advice.
I’m surprised UA-cam (most likely consulted by McKinsey) let you show this content; great job on it too.
Tech companies don't tolerate McKinsey. Tech companies do a better and honest job at consulting than McKinsey themselves and are steadily losing market share to them.
they will eventually do that. this may exist to draw out information.. one of the insidious functions of "free speech". i am quite sure this info is quite tame comparatively.
My dad worked for a company named Temco, which became Ling Temco, which became Ling Temco Vought, which became Chance Vought, which I believe became McDonald Douglas. Monopolies.
McKinsey is the company the Bob's worked for in office space.
you mean the company that got him fired? because one employee spoke to them about how little everyone did
That came to my mind too lol 😂
Maybe they were on to something😂
This is exactly what I was thinking too
Poor Michael Bolton and Shamir. Never stood a chance.
This is the truth for consulting companies in general. It's the reason why people think they hate capitalism, but they really hate this. This is basically fascism, where one group controls both the government and the corporations.
I think the best way for a company to cut costs is to ask EACH employee to submit ideas. The employees know the Deptartments they work in and know what needs to be fixed.
This is the real, actual "Swamp", not the civil servants.
The "civil servants" are in on it.
After the civil servants leave the government they go to Mackenzie and vice versus.
No, they all are
Anyone who doesn't really work for their money doesn't deserve it
Id say the pokitical appointees might, revolving door there. @@ARUSApacecarHAMPTON
Walmart also gets life insurance on their employees, so if they die Walmart gets paid.
@blobmonster9494Actually this applies to frontline hourly workers too. “Dead Peasant Insurance” is what it’s called.
Sooo gross companies can do this and give nothing to the families- even if they die because of the job.
@blobmonster9494I’ve also dabbled in life insurance and they make it profitable by calling it recovering costs of training and replacement.
I doubt the execute on all hourly (though not surprised if it was the case), but some hourly- like if they do something dangerous, especially.
The issue is the hydra within the system that allows “friends & family” to attain these contracts - insider knowledge & trading. Scratching each other’s backs!
This company advised the Canadian govt how to manipulate our foreign policy of imigration. Now we have no housing or medical left for Canada
Add Canada to the list. I hear their name being thrown around by MPs in parliament.
Indeed Legault here in Québec love them a lot...
@@Evilslayer73 Same with Trudeau and Freeland
Yah I have been noticing politicians in Canada caring more about ideas thrown around by corporate consulting than the voters' real needs and the ways which would improve them for the long term. Canada is slowly becoming a country that cares about short term goals. Something that I think fits right into right wing austerity attacks on the left wing.
@@nicklang7670 McKinsey told the liberals that Canada needs 100Million people or the boomers wont have any slaves in retirement
Sorry to hear. The capitalism exported from the United States is a malevolent destructive cancer on the planet.
My elder sister is a partner with Mckinsey and works with big pharma. Told her to quit and not work with them hope she listens. I chose to work in actual work building a FDA approved surgery tool with a leading orthopedic company, I chose to not do anything with these consulting firms/investment banks because I am the only born again Christian in my family
Major kudos to you but please dont conflate your morality with your faith. I think you will find that outside your own family there are just as many who share you morals who are not religious as those who do. I’m from a family of atheists/agnostics of catholic and Jewish background, and we similarly refuse to work for these ghouls (now that we know better)
@@LGrian That is a paradox, whose morality do you agree with, the Creator, someone elses or yours, based on what?
Who determines truth and law?
The annoying relative
Mackenzie would remove costco rotisserie chicken lol
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Misspelling "McKinsey" when it's literally right in your face is wild 😂
Mackenzie ia a presbiterian university in São Paulo, Brazil. Mc Kinsey is a firm filled with yes men and women.
It’s not about giving advice or sharing opinions. it’s about communication and a little bit of self-interest. Let me serve them the entire cake, and I promise, you’ll get your slice!
This video is spot on
For Consultants to be able to "consult" they need both expertise and experience, so you'd expect these companies to hire middle-aged employees who've spent a decade working in a particular industry in a position of influence.
Instead, McKinsey recruits graduates fresh out of university, but also advises senior management irrespective of industry/sector, even they don't have the expertise to consult.
Instead, they're employed for other reasons, but mainly to take the blame.
A common reason is to justify redudancies. Companies who need an excuse to lay off a lot of employees hire these consultants to advise them that they need to "restructure" and "cut costs", so that when they make people redundant they can claim they're acting under advisement.
As an ex who worked for Bain & Co once told me bluntly, "my job is to find a way to fire people".
Obama Care was made by McKinsey & Company. I was with McKinsey at the time, not on this assignment but I knew about it. McKinsey takes no blame for the fallout. I left after a couple of years, went on to better and more fulfilling work. McKinsey work will slowly suck out your soul and quickly fill your wallet.
Well, that would be an example of some good work by McKenzie, then. Obamacare isn’t perfect but, especially for its time, it was a pretty ballsy step towards more widely available healthcare
People should be aware that management at some companies is filled with former McKinsey’s employees as well
you think liberals or republicans are more likely to help Mckinsey? We're so focused on state choice abortion, and "woke" trans politics to really fight the issues that matter
I work for a McKinsey and have been a consultant for about a decade. AMA
Why the hell did this video completely leave out the ALLSTATE McKinsey papers???????
This was one of the biggest scandals out there.
Honestly, there’s so much.
And yeah. All but ruined All State
Well now I am looking this up thank you for the info, perhaps they didn't know, maybe now they will like I do now.
Thank Edward Bernays too, Freud's nephew, who started this mindset altering.
He's exactly who I thought of while watching this, he basically invented consulting. Thanks Bernays and Freud, what a service to humanity!
Ah, you know Bernays, congratulations! Wanna take a gander at who the founder of Netflix is? Yeah, Bernays's nephew. Unreal. The social programming is absolutely ubiquitous at this point, marketing has essentially made it's way into EVERY type of media being produced and consumed. I wonder what Freud would think of all this.
@@Mackaygolf wow, just wow!
@@chandratownsend3891 amazing manipulation of the masses
Bernays killed more people than Hitler.