The author blames McKinsey for gaming the system . But what is the system - it is just a list of laws and regulations written by Congress . If Congress finds any kind of gamification-it should change the laws accordingly.
This is such a crap concept of business ethics. You expect Congress to be everyone's mommy and daddy and tell them right from wrong? Have you seen how Congress operates?
If you do wrong, don't act all surprised and aggrieved if people blame you. It doesn't matter if the authorities happened to have a law on the books at the time. There's more to life than pursuing maximum profit.
I mean there are plenty of people who deserve blame here, the pharma companies for doing this shit, congress for enabling it and McKinsey for consulting on it, but really I think that’s the order the blame flows in.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams.
We will find that the more we lose our morality, the less we are able to abide in freedom, and the more we will require an authoritarian state to control ourselves.
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This is such a crap concept of business ethics. You expect Congress to be everyone's mommy and daddy and tell them right from wrong? Have you seen how Congress operates?
If you do wrong, don't act all surprised and aggrieved if people blame you. It doesn't matter if the authorities happened to have a law on the books at the time. There's more to life than pursuing maximum profit.
I mean there are plenty of people who deserve blame here, the pharma companies for doing this shit, congress for enabling it and McKinsey for consulting on it, but really I think that’s the order the blame flows in.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams.
We will find that the more we lose our morality, the less we are able to abide in freedom, and the more we will require an authoritarian state to control ourselves.
Good quote. Atheists might be right, but turns out a pretend panopticon has better value than a real one, or none, along every dimension.