alt Hacker NewsIf they fired 90% of the government employees, nobody would feel the difference. Most people are just paper pushers and part of the nonsense system. He wanted to manage it like a company, and what any CEO would do when they just start working: trim the fat.
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ZnerflBerp • last Friday at 11:11 PM
They might choose to do that after gaining a cursory understanding of the actual inner workings of the organisation. Especially if that organisation functions differently than corporations.
uxcolumbo • yesterday at 9:34 AM
So things are better now after firing all those ppl, right?
Do you care about food safety, disease prevention, consumer protection or the ability for the government to investigate blatant corruption?
Do you think this has gotten better or worse?
100% of the people I know that got DOGE’d were amazing people drastically underpaid for their efforts already…
3 or 4 data points isn’t a whole lot more than an anecdote, but it’s still more data than baseless claims line you’re throwing around here