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- I’m listening to “The Big Con” by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington. This book discusses the state of CONsultancies (EY, KPMG, McKinsey, PWC, Atos, and so on.
Such a worthwhile read. Whatever you expect, it’s worse.
- Seems to be making the same point as Mariana Mazzucato & Rosie Collington in the Big Con.
- The adage "we have a legal system, not a justice system" is repeated ad nauseam in these cases. But thinking about it: what if we were to have none, neither legality, nor justice, but simply randomness, fiat fortuna, et pereat mundus [1].
An example in this case would be: instead of all the boring legalese, the high-paid BigCons [2], and the unfulfillable expectation of pristine judgements, to have just a coin flip: 50% chance for guilty, 10 years jail, 50% chance free as a bird. Skew it even further, for every person killed or $1 million stolen add some percentages to the guilty chance and some years to the penalty. Solve every lawsuit in a matter of seconds, nothing to debate [3], no false belief of fairness or equity, just sheer, dumb luck, for the society or for the accused.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_iustitia,_et_pereat_mundu...
[2] 2023, Mariana Mazzucato, The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies
[3] 'Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”', lots of unprecedented to come in the near future, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/lawyer-cited-6-f...
- This recently published book should be of interest:
The Big Con by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington review – how consultancy firms cash in
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/16/the-big-con-by...
