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How your classmate became a con artist:

"It’s a choice that’s laden with power. Unlike a bank or a traditional business, consultancies have little capital apart from the graduates they hire. A consultancy is a machine for prestige, and you are the source of their prestige, the smoke that obscures the truth of a business that subsists on the crudity of cutting and selling. They purchased your transcript, and they purchased your diploma, but you have the power to take them away. Without you, a firm has no more weight than the shells through which it is paid.

So withhold your labor, withhold your prestige, and watch as the façade begins tumbling down."

https://stanfordsphere.com/2020/01/30/how-your-classmate-bec...



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