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what happens when you prioritize loyalty over all else.

This hiring and promotion pattern is also why autocracies tend to be mismanaged nightmares

And here I thought these guys were all about "merit"

Loyalty can be a merit.

/s

In an autocratic state or organised crime syndicate (these are rather similar), the only one which really matters, in the end.

According to DOGE, DOGE were actually the ones who found the error in January that someone in the government had entered $8B in the records and DOGE had it updated to $8M.

But that wouldn’t count as savings.

They are 100% ready for this job. It's just that the job is not what they officially say it is...

Oh those young inexperienced guys are quite ready for their big important job, namely, being cannon fodders for destroying the government via fear, uncertainty, and doubt. (And if Trump ever feels they've outlived their usefulness, he can dispose of them freely.)

It's just that it's not the job they thought they were signing up for.

A case study in the need for teaching of and leading for engineering ethics.

But Musk successfully build a new type of fast travel car tunnel?

And he optimized twitters value to 10 Billion?!