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> any accusation of appointment beyond merit is just a lot of speculation and rhetoric.

Juxtaposed with:

> Boston Consulting Group, and PWC have decades long record of employing 20 something scions of officials for well paid senior positions in every major country you can think of.

Asks for some citation or proof.




There's a decent moneystuff article about how this is assumed to happen (with email evidence) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-09-21/bad-in...


Neither PWC or BCG are named.


I think you missed the point. GGP was saying it’s hard to prove legally or otherwise in specific cases despite it obviously happening at scale. The point was not that when you look at the trends it’s hard to prove. The juxtaposition was intentional.




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