Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

[ScoobyDoo]

We've been presented with these same stats for 20+ years, and every single time this argument falls upon the same deaf ears of America's temporarily embarrassed billionaires. Perhaps these salt-of-the-earth, "real Murican" Xtians are too busy praying to their sky daddy for success.

Bingo.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

https://fortune.com/2023/09/27/mcki...-advising-drugmakers-purdue-sell-painkillers/

"McKinsey advised Purdue to step up sales calls to high-prescribing OxyContin doctors and persuade them to write high-dose scripts", amongst other ideas.

You really needed a group of twentysomething boutique strategy consultants each billed at $300/hr to tell you that you should simply get more patients hooked on your product?

Even as a consultant myself, there are some gigs where I just shake my head in awe. Someone got their bottle of Armand de Brignac that month.

 

[mookie1995]

https://fortune.com/2023/09/27/mcki...-advising-drugmakers-purdue-sell-painkillers/

"McKinsey advised Purdue to step up sales calls to high-prescribing OxyContin doctors and persuade them to write high-dose scripts", amongst other ideas.

You really needed a group of twentysomething boutique strategy consultants each billed at $300/hr to tell you that you should simply get more patients hooked on your product?

Even as a consultant myself, there are some gigs where I just shake my head in awe. Someone got their bottle of Armand de Brignac that month.

Those svckers of kock are all over the Mid East. mookie dreams of shoving some of them down an elevator shaft

 

[ScoobyDoo]

https://fortune.com/2023/09/27/mcki...-advising-drugmakers-purdue-sell-painkillers/

"McKinsey advised Purdue to step up sales calls to high-prescribing OxyContin doctors and persuade them to write high-dose scripts", amongst other ideas.

You really needed a group of twentysomething boutique strategy consultants each billed at $300/hr to tell you that you should simply get more patients hooked on your product?

Even as a consultant myself, there are some gigs where I just shake my head in awe. Someone got their bottle of Armand de Brignac that month.

Completely unethical. Ethics is one of the pillars of all of medicine and those folks failed the test. Lock them all up.

 

[Kepler]

Completely unethical. Ethics is one of the pillars of all of medicine and those folks failed the test. Lock them all up.

Violating all ethical and moral standards is the cornerstone of business. Shoot every MBA into the sun. It's getting a Masters in being an as-shole.

 

[Swansong]

If you want to be enraged, watch Painkiller on Netflix. It isn't great but it's decent enough and dear god is it maddening.

 

[Kepler]

If you want to be enraged, watch Painkiller on Netflix. It isn't great but it's decent enough and dear god is it maddening.

I knew if I watched that I would stroke out from anger and/or make the news for blowing away a country club.

There is no accountability or justice for white collar crime. A mugger harms a person and goes to prison. A banker or businessman harms millions and gets a bonus.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

If you want to be enraged, watch Painkiller on Netflix. It isn't great but it's decent enough and dear god is it maddening.

I'm enraged without even watching it. Seen enough on 60 minutes, etc.

 

[Swansong]

You know Perdue was bad when the LA Times wrote a very long article straight-up accusing them of fraud and lying and they didn't sue.

 

[Kepler]

The libertarian paradise of no intrusive red tape job-killing gubmint regulation.

 

[Kepler]

How bout that?

According to a new report by dappGambl that reviewed data from NFT Scan and CoinMarketCap, 69,795 out of 73,257 NFT collections have a market cap of 0 Ether, leaving 95% of those holding NFT collections – or 23 million people – with worthless investments.

 

[dxmnkd316]

You're telling me a hyperlink to a jpg on a hard drive in some loser's closet is worthless?!??!

 

[Swansong]

This was the easiest pump n dump scam on earth. There are some legit crypto networks (well, "legit" being relative), but almost all of these are just ways to extract money from idiots.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

How bout that?

Called it.

 

[Slap Shot]

You're telling me a hyperlink to a jpg on a hard drive in some loser's closet is worthless?!??!

Not to the loser with the hard drive.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

University of Minnesota had a very large data breach. I’m putting this here because I think the cost cutting going on at many places is going to lead to a lot more of this.

mgm grand hack last week- social engineering on a low level outsourced employee. Some big health companies are outsourcing like crazy to reduce costs.

the U of M breach is huge and has things like SSN in it. Looks like anyone who applied there or went there in the last 30 years was caught up in it lol . They are offering a free year of credit monitoring from Kroll

 

[dxmnkd316]

Not to the loser with the hard drive.

Line goes up!

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Black hats are starting to target manufacturers, too. A lot of mfg operational tech is now "smart" and on the network, to be monitored, updated, and managed just like any IT asset. OT is 10+ years behind IT in proactively managing security vulnerabilities with patching schedules, etc.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Black hats are starting to target manufacturers, too. A lot of mfg operational tech is now "smart" and on the network, to be monitored, updated, and managed just like any IT asset. OT is 10+ years behind IT in proactively managing security vulnerabilities with patching schedules, etc.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Black hats are starting to target manufacturers, too. A lot of mfg operational tech is now "smart" and on the network, to be monitored, updated, and managed just like any IT asset. OT is 10+ years behind IT in proactively managing security vulnerabilities with patching schedules, etc.

This is why IT is being run by dumb people. If your tech is ahead of your security it's not safe to put into production. Yet, we do it anyway. I weep for my profession.