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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by apical_dendrite on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:48PM (#43143061)
The government does plenty of things inefficiently, but DOGE is making such a colossal mess with their rushed, uninformed, and frequently illegal actions that they're causing more problems than they solve. Indiscriminately firing people because they were hired or promoted within the last 2 years is incredibly wasteful. It means getting rid of the people who were most successful. It also means getting rid of people who had very specialized skills or who just went through a very expensive training process.

Also consider how much disruption all of this is causing to the federal workforce and the contractors. People are being forced to upend their lives on very short notice to RTO. They were getting daily emails telling them to quit. It's hard to imagine anyone doing good work when they're scared that some indiscriminate process is going to fire them.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by leereeves on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:05PM (#43143192)
> DOGE [i.e. Musk] is making such a colossal mess with their rushed, uninformed, and frequently illegal actions that they're causing more problems than they solve.

People said the same thing when Musk took a wrecking ball to Twitter. Now it's more profitable than ever.

I don't know how this is all going to turn out, maybe he really is wrecking the government, but it's certainly too early to call it.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by linkregister on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:16PM (#43143318)
> Now it's more profitable than ever.

The primary owner of X disagrees with you.

"We're barely breaking even" [1]

1. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-x-growth-22130...

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by apical_dendrite on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:25PM (#43143412)
This is a stupid comparison. The government is not a business. "Lower costs by making it shittier" has a completely different implication when people are relying on the work for national defense, public safety, health, income, and other life-and-death matters.

These are public goods. They shouldn't be run on the basis of "make them as crappy as we can get away with to save as much money as possible".

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by codedokode on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:36PM (#43143501)
Government agencies are not Twitter though and their goal is not maximizing the profit.
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by sterlind on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:39PM (#43143529)
Will I need to purchase a blue check mark to vote in the next election?
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by hirsin on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:46PM (#43143586)
Twitter has 80% less revenue than it's peak in 2022, less than it had in 2014.

Even if it is more profitable, it's doing a heck of a lot less. The government being 80% less effective would be a very bad outcome here.

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