My friends from my rural high school often went into construction My friends from college often went into management consulting It seems to me that management consulting offers very little to the world at large, and that construction offers a great deal This is horrifyinghttps://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1228044970889744387 …
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Replying to @a_fellow_of
I def vibe the idea and I feel you’re right. I also haven’t been able to come up with a definition of “useful” that largely lets me agree. Do you have one? TBC I feel it in my bones, so maybe it’s just illegible?
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Replying to @mumsimumbus @a_fellow_of
Creating goods or providing services that improve someone's life
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Replying to @imhinesmi @a_fellow_of
(Again, I agree. Help my unagreelief) Arguably, management consultants do this, it’s just much much more indirect? Like, we wouldn’t have MRI machines w/o large swathes of people doing management-consulting-y jobs?
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Replying to @mumsimumbus @imhinesmi
I don’t immediately see the connection between consulting and MRI’s—seems like MRI is the result of professors/physicists->engineers->factory workers->doctors. Where do consultants come in?
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Replying to @a_fellow_of @imhinesmi
They're def in the arrows, but they also within each group-- Whenever people need to coordinate, things get soooo much harder and less resilient against mistakes and bad actors. Also, these "useless" jobs are often about increasing resilience or hedging tail risk.
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Like there's a ton of waste, but corp lawyers exist so that companies can't go totally bad. Calling them "useless" rhymes with "benevolent dictators are bae. democracy mad inefficient". You not wrong but
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*"can't go bad" IN CERTAIN WAYS--once they find some new path of least resistance, the system will come up with more bullshit jobs to constrain
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Replying to @mumsimumbus @a_fellow_of
Sometimes. But from what I understand, management consulting is mostly used to win office politics, rather than prevent to prevent corps from being unethical. (Though having an option to call in someone to arbitrate is better for conflict resolution than the opposite.)
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It's similar for corporate lawyers - putting laws in place to the point where we need armies of corp lawyers destroys better mechanisms for correcting corp behavior. Useful in small numbers, but we're past the optimal point.
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