“President-elect Donald Trump picked Tesla CEO Elon Musk and biotech company founder Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, to lead an effort to cut spending, eliminate regulations and restructure federal agencies.”
Well, I hope we like drinking dirty water, no idea what the weather will be like and eating contaminated food.
So they will pop random rivets in the name of “efficiency” until shit falls apart.
Fucking morons.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-picks-musk-ramaswamy-government-011625235.html
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I'm never getting on a plane again.
@feloneouscat I love efficiency but the problem is most people's idea of efficiency gets in the way of the RESULT.
Is it delivery of services? Time? Cost?
The Unaccountability Machine, a book I keep touting, notes that if you have one simple measure, you basically loose your mind trying to reach it.
It’s called metrics and the problem is money is not an accurate metric. Musk is paid billions and yet he isn’t an engineer. He isn’t a professional software engineer. He isn’t a hardware engineer. He doesn’t know shit about aerospace engineering.
Tesla made a lot of money. They also have a LONG HISTORY of fucking buyers over. Sure, that’s a metric. And Musk wants to bring that to US government?
What’s next? Fire employees because you don’t understand why they’re important?
@feloneouscat I once said "The Metric is the Madness" and now feel both smart and very depressed :/
@feloneouscat Vivek is a god damn fraud.
About him: “ Over two interminable hours, the 38-year-old biotech businessman implied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, is a Nazi; suggested Michelle Obama, not Joe Biden, is currently acting as president; and attacked everyone from the moderators to Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel to Nikki Haley, who seemed to be speaking for most Americans when she made clear her disgust with him.”
The dumb are in charge.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/vivek-ramaswamy-gop-debate
This may sound dumb, but it isn’t.
Government is not supposed to be efficient. It’s supposed to be functional. It’s supposed to make correct decisions. It is supposed to be neutral.
Things that are “efficient” are in favor of budget over correctness; over accuracy.
Would you prefer a doctor who fixes your problem or sees you for 20 seconds just to be efficient?
Musk list $30 billion dollars running Twitter. You think he understands what he is doing?
This is a disaster.