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I'd say companies like this are a scam, but they're only half a scam -- half the customers know exactly what they're getting.

The other half haven't figured it out and think they're getting top-tier stuff and end up with life destroying garbage like your employee performance system or a citywide trash crisis? [1]

Do you need to spend millions to justify an inevitable decision but blame the hired guns for it? Hire McKinsey.

Do you need to spend millions for severely overworked junior grade consultants and offshored "experts" to provide you with objectively terrible advice and create an opioid epidemic? Also hire McKinsey! [2]

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/nyregion/new-york-city-tr... 2 - https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/opioidfacts