Extrapolations? You’re dang right they are. Especially if they come from the wonks at McKinsey and Company. My several experiences with this gang is that they are parrots. Highly paid parrots without a single original idea.
A McKinsey team is composed of an older partner leading a team of bright eyed, expensively educated youngsters with heads filled with the latest MBA crap, excellent excel skills, able to harvest reams of data, be present insanely long billable hours and delivering a report of what your employees told them that your employees have been trying to tell management if they would only have listened, assimialted and done their job with. The only good thing about a McKinsey team I have found is that many of the bright eyed youth have nice legs.
Turn the function of supporting society over to DISPASSIONATE engineers and you’ll get much better solutions than the mismash of political, social architecture junk we have now.
Don't necessarily disagree. But engineers can only work to meet a defined goal, not set goals for society, and what the goals should be is the source of most conflict.
I also think it only fair to point out that both fascism and communism were really, really big on turning societal decision making over to experts like engineers.