Comment by financetechbro

2 days ago

I’m sorry but the naivety of your comment is absolutely hilarious. Good luck getting your refund when the IRS is being ran by a handful of angsty young adults

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CyrsBel  2 days ago

DOGE and POTUS are incentivized to follow through on this type of thing because it would increase good-faith in the masses big time. I don't think they'd renege on it. I'm certainly not naive! You can see that I've been contradicting DOGE on things since they became a thing. (@cyrsbel on X)

  • intended  2 days ago

    Hi, I’ve read a lot of your comments, and you are going to get short shrift for it.

    The core issue is the idea that they are incentivized to act in good faith.

    Theres a great article which was shared here: "Why is it so hard to buy things that work" https://danluu.com/nothing-works/ The idea here is that since its the right thing to do, firms will do the right thing. or: "markets enforce efficiency, so it's not possible that a company can have some major inefficiency and survive" > Although it's possible to find people who don't do shoddy work, it's generally difficult for someone who isn't an expert in the field to determine if someone is going to do shoddy work in the field. and > More generally, in many markets, consumers are uninformed and it's fairly difficult to figure out which products are even half decent, let alone good.

  • recursive  2 days ago

    I'm still waiting on orange to release his tax returns like he promised from his first presidential debate. That audit's gotta be almost complete by now, right?

  • Sohcahtoa82  2 days ago

    > DOGE and POTUS are incentivized to follow through on this type of thing because it would increase good-faith in the masses big time.

    Trump has no interest in increasing good faith. He doesn't need to. He can't run for office anymore, and even if he could, there's literally nothing he could do to lose voters. And he certainly doesn't give a shit about the future of the Republican party.

    The people that voted for Trump fully support everything that's being done.

  • lowercased  2 days ago

    How are those public contradictions going?

    > increase good-faith in the masses big time

    What incentive is there for anyone in the Trump administration to care about that? I don't see one.

    > I don't think they'd renege on it.

    Lower prices on day 1. Stopping Ukraine war on day 1.

    Trump just says things in the moment to play for approval, then says something contradictory later if need be. There is no fallout, pushback or consequence from his supporters, and they have control of ... all branches of government right now.

  • hobs  2 days ago

    I am not reading your twitter history to say that assuming Elon and Trump wont renege on something is the worst bet of your entire life.

    • CyrsBel  2 days ago

      The point of that comment was to show that I am not naive about these matters. They need to be called out for reneging so that they stop doing it.