I was using "laptop class" as a synonym for the civil service and various other Laurentian bootlickers, which was a mistake on my part in retrospect. I imagine that much of Trudeau's biggest supporters are in the civil service or retired from it because he will shower them with taxpayer money without any oversight. Unions like PSAC don't have to put the screws to Trudeau as hard as they would to a Conservative government so they can force concessions at the taxpayer's expense. As said on this thread before, many Canadians are historically and economically illiterate so many of Trudeau's support base are non-government normies that can't be bothered to delve into any given issue. They will default to the propaganda the our public education system taught them and deny anything that contradicts that narrative.
Since you brought the name up, in what way is McKinsey a cult and how do they leave businesses worse off? Their former CEO, Dominic Barton, was deeply embedded in the Prime Minister's Office and gained the plum appointment of Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. I get the impression that they act as a "shadow" civil service and they are as ideological as the Liberal Party, which itself is nothing more than a Trudeau personality cult these days.
McKinsey is such a household name that just the idea that you're hiring McKinsey can make your firm better off. McKinsey is a management consulting firm with a specific way of doing things. It's difficult to quantify if McKinsey actually provides results. Every time I've had a case that had big consulting firms involved, it's always a headache.
Guy who wrote this was one of the fervant anti-lockdown rich. Studied at Stanford, multiple diplomas. He bases his argument on a national bureau that uses
high density cities as a basis (With a map of New York City). New York City is an absolute shithole of bureaucracy and insane real estate prices. I find it rich to bemoan the fate of low-skilled workers in these areas, when rent was already unaffordable pre-covid.
The businesses hiring those low-skilled workers are, to a degree, the same businesses crying to have more temporary foreign workers to keep line going up.
Really it should be the 'managerial class' we're talking about. I don't want to get into the class autism, but if youre earning 40,000 to 50,000 thats more akin to entry level work- laptop or not.
Are they going anywhere in this country though? Arguably, yes. AI and offshoring is taking its own toll on said class too. Entry level jobs don't really exist in Canada anymore. I have a close friend who is a BA manager for TD. He tells me, they dont actually hire for proper entry level jobs (code monkey things, triage, etc). All those jobs are basically either done by AI currently, or don't exist in Canada because they're already offshored to India.
TD specifically is also cutting back staffing by 3% on average. Not firing, but when someone retires, they just arent hiring en mass once more. Bad time to look for an entry level job, if anything- its actually structurally against Canadians, unironically
I deal with business analysts and their managers often. The business analysts don't tend to take decisions, and whether they're useful or not is in large part on the firm. Some businesses autistically fixate on the wrong performance indicators. Convincing top brass to change their perspective is a long and drawn out process.
It's hard to define what entry-level even is, when our universities miserably fail at producing decent graduates. I have dealt with business school undergrads in supply chain management who don't understand basic sample testing. I've dealt with marketing undergrads who don't understand how to do a content calendar, run ad campaigns, or manage conversions. I've dealt with finance undergrads who cannot read financial ratios. These kids all think they'll be managers. The quality of Canadian graduates is incredibly low.
MBAs aren't any better. Reading business cases someone prepared and "solving" them doesn't make you smart. Harvard is obsessed with them, and so are major consulting firms. You have institutions dedicated to "training" people to do these case interviews. Real life isn't a business case study where you're a rich elite who conveniently can make major business decisions.
We have far too many people sitting in universities. Universities are more than happy to churn out diplomas and put out bloated curriculum. They have a financial incentive to get you to stay longer even if you drop out eventually. That way, you pay more tuition. I have read recently that many universities the one I graduated from have turned into a breeding ground for sand wars extremism.
Meanwhile we can't build anything, we aren't producing anything of value. Nobody wants to do plumbing, nobody wants to do welding, nobody wants to do electric work, nobody wants to do carpenting/construction etc...
This is what I'm finding and it is incredibly dangerous for the nation. It's nearly impossible for people to get started in different industries, and over time it means those companies will find it impossible to find skilled workers as there will be nobody left that has been building on their careers. If they have entry level positions then they could choose the best from those positions to send for training to higher positions on the company. Instead all they will have are people who lied about their skillsets and fuck everything up.
This is what I am seeing in multiple lines of work.
