Comment by slumpt_
2 months ago
This stood out to me as well.
A pitfall for experts in one field to assume their skills are transferable.
2 months ago
This stood out to me as well.
A pitfall for experts in one field to assume their skills are transferable.
>experts in one field [assuming] their skills are transferable
That appears to be the premise of DOGE.
This sentence also killed me:
>working on various projects I’m definitely not able to talk about
It's not because they're classified. It's because a bunch of unaccountable private citizens are plotting behind closed doors to tear down the government.
And they’re doing it while unironically shouting about the tyranny of unelected bureaucrats
It is a mark against our system that someone can get this rich without seeing a problem with all of this. We are told that capitalism makes smart people rich, but it does not appear to filter out gullible people.