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I wouldn’t trust a 19 year old to do my taxes let alone audit all of federal spending.
by cdme 2y ago
I wouldn’t trust a 19 year old to do my taxes let alone audit all of federal spending.
- reustle 2y agoThose are a couple of people within a much larger team.
- cdme 2y agoRanging from 19-24.
- ubercore 2y agoMuch larger? How much larger? I thought it was a pretty small group.
- krainboltgreene 2y agoI wouldn't trust my teenager with a "large" team of people in control of the federal payments system.
- liontwist 2y ago[flagged]
- cdme 2y agoI dunno, maybe get an undergrad degree in a related field? I don’t think working as a bike repairman qualifies you.
- liontwist 2y ago[flagged]
- cdme 2y agoNo, none of them are qualified. Elon isn’t either.
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- liontwist 2y ago[flagged]
- cdme 2y agoIt speaks to their experience, of which they have none. They and Musk lack the competence to be doing what they’re engaged in.
- an_guy 2y ago[flagged]
- cdme 2y ago[flagged]
- dang 2y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- lelanthran 2y ago>Experience in what? Do you know their roles and responsibilities? > How do you judge competence of someone whose job and responsibilities are not known? It's actually very easy to judge, based on the fact that someone who has never done an audit before is now trusted to do one. I mean, I wouldn't trust Einstein himself at age 24 to audit a small business, no way am I going to think that some rando, maybe brighter than average, will know what they are doing when performing an audit at age 24. I also think that, if the story is true, the fact that they started at the wrong end of the financials is a dead giveaway that they do not know what they are doing. IOW, if I saw someone tasked with designing a new car, and they started by opening up MS Paint and drawing tread patterns for the spare wheel, I'd certainly consider them unable to design a new car. Even if we err on the side of benefit of doubt, even the smartest 24yo in the world is not going to be competent at doing even a basic audit when: 1. This is the first audit that they are doing, and 2. They have never before had any accounting background. So, yeah, it's quite reasonable to consider them incompetent that the chosen task in the circumstances.
- MisterTea 2y agoBut we trust them with billions in military hardware and defending the nation.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoI mean, not individually.
- llamaimperative 2y agoAfter super intensive training and supported by an ultra-regimented social and technological infrastructure?
- taylodl 2y agoNo we don't. They get small arms. Fighter jets, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and the like are commanded by much older and experienced people. An M16 is not "billions in military hardware."