If you work in the companies at the LEFT, we appreciate what you do, and this post is not about anyone. But in this age of DOGE (department of government efficiency) and Elon Musk where ordinary citizens with uncommon bravado can dismantle public enterprises in the way we have seen Musk, working for Trump, has done, are the jobs of the big consulting companies safe?
I mean, it took Musk one week to shut down USAID; a consulting firm could have billed you $100m and would possibly need 2 years to do that. Suddenly, DOGE is normalizing that being nice to public sector workers is nonsense in the Trumpian era.
I wonder how some of these firms will thrive, especially those tethered to the public sector, if this Musk-Trump playbook continues. DOGE is providing a case study that may hurt the prospects of these companies for years. Yes, if DOGE does this and it works, a template is born, and if you dig deeper, the public sector has disintermediated the works of big play consulting firms.
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