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How Capitalism Wastes Billions: Mariana Mazzucato's Tour De Force

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The Cons of the Consulting Industry

The consulting industry has weakened businesses and Fentalized our governments. A conservative lord his name was lord agnew looked at all the figures Just how much the uk government was spending on consultants both under covid where we kind of brought in Deloitte for example to do the test and trace system They were actually earning something like one million dollars a day to do something they didn't know how to do very well. In 2016 after brexit the consulting market grew by 7.5 Percent to 7.3 billion a year So that's four times faster than the uk economy. We're making government stupider and then we end up you know blaming government for not knowing what it's

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