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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by electriclove on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:16PM (#42922418)
If you believe things have been run well at these agencies (that you didn’t even know existed), that would explain your position.

Imagine someone who believes that things have not been run properly. Now imagine half the country feeling this way.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by __loam on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:21PM (#42922491)
The proper forum for reforms is congress, not steamrolling your way through the federal bureaucracy.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by bko on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:31PM (#42922628)
That's another way of saying you don't think there should be reforms. It won't happen.

In the past you had events that reshaped and wiped away the buildup of bureaucracy. Kind of like a refactor. These events have been war or revolutions.

I think its worth thinking about things as a system that we can periodically refresh, ditch the old and start from scratch. It's not healthy to just keep adding layers without a good mechanism to remove them

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by jbeam on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:22PM (#42923365)
>That's another way of saying you don't think there should be reforms. It won't happen.

Because the people's representatives will get in the way? The pesky checks and balances of democracy?

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