More than 20 Musk staffers resign over DOGE's 'dismantling of public services'

hedayet · 10 months ago

This is a refreshing break from the usual 'Replacement Excuse' in tech—'If I don’t do it, someone else will, so I might as well profit from it.'

sillywalk · 10 months ago

The headline seems kind of misleading. It looks like they weren't "Musk staffers", they were employees who worked at the US Digital Service.

insane_dreamer · 10 months ago

They are Musk staffers now since the USDS was rebranded DOGE, making existing USDS employees DOGE employees.

dekhn · 10 months ago

However, Musk doesn't actually lead DOGE, or work in DOGE, he's a special advisor to the president, so they're not really even his staffers.

VieEnCode · 10 months ago

Unfortunately, they will be replaced with those sympathetic to the nerd reich takeover and thus ultimately reduce friction and for those in charge looking to wield the wrecking ball. It feels like half the goal of DOGE and similar measures is to purge those with a conscience and loyalty to public service and replace them with those willing to do almost anything asked of them.

ofcourseyoudo · 10 months ago

I think the idea is that they are some of the ones that know where all the procedures (and skeletons) are buried, so the DOGEkids will be slowed down because they'll be trying to examine and audit systems they don't understand.

black_puppydog · 10 months ago

I agree that's probably the rationale, I am just afraid the Dogekids won't let a lack of understanding slow them down.

monetus · 10 months ago

Our government is starting to have a bit of a 1970's Cambodia feel to its anti-intelligentsia.

throw0101d · 10 months ago

> Our government is starting to have a bit of a 1970's Cambodia feel to its anti-intelligentsia.

Anti-intellectualism has a long history in the US:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_Americ...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#In_the_Un...

lnwlebjel · 10 months ago

where and how does one acquire the '1970's Cambodia feel' without having actually been there?

clipsy · 10 months ago

If only there was some way to learn about things without experiencing them first hand. Alas!

gniv · 10 months ago

Here's the actual letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25544180-usds-resign...

beretguy · 10 months ago

https://archive.ph/es38j

jqpabc123 · 10 months ago

Who will be hurt the most by this?

Not rich billionaires like Musk.

The answer is the working class folks who voted for Trump?

The same answer applies to who will be hurt the most by tariffs.

Amazingly, lots of ordinary folks were hoodwinked into giving rich billionaires more control --- over themselves and their lives. Stupid is as stupid does.

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