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When they said elite, banks, law firms, and consulting business did not come to mind. The first two I consider them as leeches.

• rayiner 15y ago
  To be fair, so is the third one. At least lawyers give advice that spans a broader range than "fire people to goose short-term profits". :D
• asto 15y ago
  I'm quite sure you're just trolling but I'm curious to know why you think the first two are leeches but not the third.
  • paganel 15y ago
    > I'm quite sure you're just trolling but I'm curious to know why you think the first two are leeches but not the third. You're by definition a leech when instead of being allowed to go bankrupt you're feeding on other people's money (so called "Government support"). That's not how banking got started back in the 15th-16th century, I never read of the Genoa bankers for example asking Philip II "hey, why don't you let us rob you of your South America gold?", as far as I know it was the other way round (Philip II screwing the Genoese bankers). But then again, back in the day we didn't have main-stream media Keynes-ian supporters saying things like "if we dont' give our money to support the banks the whole system would come crumbling down".
• jleyank 15y ago
  "When they said elite, banks, law firms, and consulting business did not come to mind. The first two I consider them as leeches." OK, but then they look upon the HN readers as fungible headcount that can be outsourced. Different strokes for different folks - and the more you understand the rules of other's games the better you do.