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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by asjldkfin on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:11AM (#26026640)
Mcks wasn’t asked for advice on ethics, they were asked advice on increasing sales.

If you go to a Tattoo artist and ask for a portrait tattooed on your face, it might be gauche as hell, but that didn’t change the fact the artist might’ve done a great job.

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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by rmrfrmrf on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:15AM (#26026697)
Not even close to a comparable analogy. A better analogy would be yours, but where the ink disappears after 1 day and the person getting the tattoo dies a day later.
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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by asjldkfin on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:18AM (#26026722)
No, it’s a perfect analogy, because it illustrates that efficacy is independent of moral perspective.
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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by rmrfrmrf on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:21AM (#26026748)
Morality has nothing to do with it. If consulting advice literally bankrupts your company, the advice is trash, full stop.
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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by asjldkfin on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:35AM (#26026928)
No, the advice Purdue asked for bankrupted the company.

Just like how asking a programmer to build a garbage program doesn’t mean the programmer is trash, it just means the specs are.

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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by carapace on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:57AM (#26027194)
Programmers who build garbage are part of the problem, no?
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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by asjldkfin on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:13PM (#26027400)
Not if they build garbage well, the quality of the code and the quality of the product are independent.
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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by carapace on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:56PM (#26030254)
But isn't building garbage a problem? What's the point of automatic garbage?
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