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system2 • yesterday at 9:28 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

If 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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JustinAiken • yesterday at 10:20 PM

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

ZnerflBerp • yesterday 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.

palata • yesterday at 10:13 PM

I hope you get fired, too.

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