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> Those tens of thousands of Google/Amazon/Facebook experts are not going to provide the government with objective recommendations, they're going to provide the
by heartbreak 7y ago
> Those tens of thousands of Google/Amazon/Facebook experts are not going to provide the government with objective recommendations, they're going to provide the government with recommendations that favor them.
Do you have a factual basis for this claim? To me it seems like a form of projection that is common among right-of-center people. It's no wonder they want smaller government.
- Nasrudith 7y agoTell me which ones would be favored for hiring and retention - experts which provide what they want presented or ones which present inconvenient facts?
- wycy 7y agoI'm not right of center and I don't want smaller government. The fact that employees of corporations will provide the government with recommendations that are favorable for those corporations is exactly why I think the government needs a technology office to advocate on its own behalf.
- 29_29 7y agoAs someone that works for a living for a YC company. I want my company to advocate for itself
- wycy 7y agoPrecisely. And the government should have a group with the proper qualifications to judge the merits of the advocacy of these other companies and advocate on the government's and people's behalf.
- 29_29 7y agoWhen considering additional regulations, the weight of biased political workers should have zero weight. Advocacy is most often a defensive action against business killing overreach.