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This stood out to me as well. A pitfall for experts in one field to assume their skills are transferable.

• snitty 2y ago
  >experts in one field [assuming] their skills are transferable That appears to be the premise of DOGE. This sentence also killed me: >working on various projects I’m definitely not able to talk about It's not because they're classified. It's because a bunch of unaccountable private citizens are plotting behind closed doors to tear down the government.
  • mcculley 2y ago
    It is a mark against our system that someone can get this rich without seeing a problem with all of this. We are told that capitalism makes smart people rich, but it does not appear to filter out gullible people.
  • chipgap98 2y ago
    And they’re doing it while unironically shouting about the tyranny of unelected bureaucrats