Comment by dTal

Comment by dTal 3 days ago

4 replies

> I don’t know what they will replace everything with, ideally they have a bunch of smart people thinking about that

Kind of the key issue dontcha think? Maybe woulda been good to know that before burning down the government?

"ideally they have a bunch of smart people thinking about that" is exactly what the government is for. We had a bunch of smart people thinking about a lot of our problems. They're fired now.

lc9er 3 days ago

The idea that government isn’t filled with tons of smart, hard working people is infuriating. Not every smart and ambitious person wants to spend their life in a rent-seeking job, building the next subscription-based app. There’s thousands upon thousands of dedicated government workers that could earn more in private industry, but view the work as a higher calling.

  • hamhock666 2 days ago

    Yes you just need to reorganize those smart people into a new system. I don’t agree with everything being done.

  • nielsbot 2 days ago

    So true. It's a damn shame what DOGE is doing to the government I paid for.

    Tearing it down and replacing it with something leaner, faster, better (fingers crossed) is just nonsensical libertarianism all over again.

nielsbot 2 days ago

This is where the libertarian approach always falls apart. "ideally" this and "ideally" that. In the real world however libertarianism is a ridiculous fantasy which will harm everyone except the very rich.