The Daily Poor

You know how I make fun of those Right Wing dudes who produce essays written at a fourth grade level and everyone is like "ZOMG SO INSIGHTFUL KING!"?

Deloitte is a company that charges six figures per essay for that.

These stupid firms exist for a very specific purpose.

There's this natural side effect of entrenched bureaucracies that start to fail. They fail because no one is accountable, power is too distributed, and everything is run by consensus.They cant blame failure on anyone because no one has responsibility, and its almost impossible to unlearn how to do things wrong when you've developed a system around it. In order to right the ship everyone has to admit the problems they already know are present, and they are often blatantly obvious. But no one says anything because speaking up invites two outcomes: first, the rest of the group treats you like a saboteur trying to undermine everyone by forcing them to take collective responsibility when they mechanistically can't, so they all persecute you instead. The other possibility is that by speaking up you give everyone else an out, allowing them to offload the responsibility of fixing it on you, giving you de facto accountability with no actual power, because everything is still run by consensus. This of course screws you.

The service that entities like Deloitte provide is that they walk into your system, point out the retardedly obvious problems that everyone knows are there (e.g. you cant sustainably run at a loss), and allow the whole bureaucracy a collective out for accountability, because these problems were "so subtle" that we couldn't even notice them, we needed these "highly educated specialists" to "diagnose" it. Now that we are armed with this esoteric knowledge, and none of us are at fault because how could we have known, we can fix it.