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Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is seeking "super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting" (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It is funny how the department of efficiency is adopting the toxic corporate culture demanding ridiculously long work hours. I get that it is a tool of social control and a way of making people feel important but from an efficiency point of view it is absolutely bonkers, nobody is going to perform efficiently after 12 hours of work.

My humble prediction is that doge Elon's main contribution to the federal government will be forcing a bunch of private sector inefficiencies on it.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My humble prediction is that doge Elon’s main contribution to the federal government will be forcing a bunch of private sector inefficiencies on it.

I'm wondering how much damage they can actually do, without it getting bogged down in federal judge blocking and legal battles and such.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 8 months ago

That's the funny side. These Muppets don't seem to get that you can't have neoliberal deregulation without a robust state. You know that if a left wing party ever gained power the bureaucracy would resist every step of the way. It'll be no different when that same bureaucracy eats and sees itself being eaten. The hidden-power-level zealots might be keen. Until someone lays them off under the same programme. Chaos under the heavens.

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