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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess one thing about capitalist ghouls is that they will work with everyone for money

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hence, one of the reasons why the "real capitalism" that ancaps and libertarians talk about has never been tried.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Those people are mostly just butthurt they aren't the beneficiaries of such "cronyism" and think themselves smarter than everyone else, just less well connected. It's the reason all the ancaps in that hbo documentary with an alias go by John Galt.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can't access the article but i think its complete bullshit, i really doubt they had any influence in China's internal economy policies lmao.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah my bet is that the think tank just waved a some paper at them completely unsolicited and got ignored, which is enough for them to say they totally are top advisers

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

its also pretty racist to even consider it: "Such primitive people can't possibly figure out their national interests, we the civilized west must've advised them"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

And it's especially funny when you compare the state of the respective economies and diplomatic image of the "civilized" vs "primitives"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

McKinsey: The Urban China Initiative was a non-profit initiative co-founded in 2011 with Columbia University and Tsinghua University. The Urban China Initiative is not McKinsey, and it did not perform work on McKinsey’s behalf. To our knowledge, McKinsey was not compensated for any UCI-related research or initiatives.

The decade-old report described in a recent news article was not authored by McKinsey and is not McKinsey work.

As we have stated previously: The central government of China is not, and to our knowledge has never been, a client of McKinsey. Our client work in China is overwhelmingly for U.S., multinational and Chinese private sector entities.

We reject efforts to use a document McKinsey didn’t write and work we didn’t do to call into question our 75-year history of supporting the US government. We stand by our previous statement and our commitments to US clients.

https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/media/mckinsey-statement-concerning-recent-financial-times-article

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

pronounjak-rage NOOOOO how dare you question our imperial loyalty?? We're lifetime running dogs of the Empire! We would never aid and abet the barbarians with our superior western knowledge!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

lol i knew it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is no way the PRC payed for this "advice" or is not already doing this...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I mean it's a pretty obvious thing to do, it's just funny that even western consultants realized this was perfectly reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

chickens and roosting and and and