McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis role: source

Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by stuaxo on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:46PM (#26027792)

Just because there are ordinary employees at the bottom doing ordinary boring jobs, doesn't mean that this is not a company that has done all sorts of damage.

Most of the huge profits don't go to people like you, but there are huge profits.

The opioid crisis has caused untold suffering and death. The amount of money they were fined is a joke that couldn't make a tiny dent in what fixing this.

It's small enough that it it's unlikely to stop them being involved in something similar in future.

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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by klmadfejno on Thursday February 04, 2021 @01:00PM (#26027953)

To give some color, the revenue from the perdue work was probably (much) less than 10M, profits, less so. McKinsey's total revenue (not profit (based on a google search)), is like $10B. Losing half a billion is a lot.

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