
McKinsey & Company Impales Our Youth on the Pike of Their Profits, by J. Deckman This is a difficult article for me to write without expressing a strong personal bias; either in words or energies. I am struggling for two reasons. The first is because I have first-hand experience with the death, devastation and the hell caused when ones close to you find themselves in the jaws of the most brutal addictions one can imagine: Opiates. The second is that as someone who is devoted to bringing a higher level of consciousness to both leadership and business, I find predatory capitalism and those who engage in it to be beyond reprehensible. So, I will do my best to write clearly. And we will see where this goes… When I first read of McKinsey and Company’s role in furthering the opioid epidemic that is killing tens of thousands of young people every year and devastating the lives of hundreds of thousands of their family members, I was stunned numb for a moment and then I became increas...