Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The organization is dismissed as a fraudulent system designed to enrich a few through endless discussion.
- In plain terms
- This group is a scam where talk replaces real work to make money.
- What can you take from it?
- Bureaucracy often serves profit over purpose.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When does talk become useless?
- Who benefits from empty conferences?
Another view
It generalizes all committees as useless without nuance.
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