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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by mint2 on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:00PM (#42927734)
Yo there’s literally articles regularly published on the names and pay of all local city employees in my city with specific call outs to the top paid ones.

While it seems you are implying that is not cool, it’s actually unremarkable and common government transparency.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by sanderjd on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:40AM (#42932905)
Yep. I feel like we should probably be taking more of a "you're one of today's ten thousand!"[0] approach to this thread. I think this person is probably just actually unfamiliar with the history of public interest reporting on government.

0: https://xkcd.com/1053/

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