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Just the cutting of everything USAID shows how little he understands of politics, the soft power that such organization earns for the country cannot be overstat
by mattigames 2y ago
Just the cutting of everything USAID shows how little he understands of politics, the soft power that such organization earns for the country cannot be overstated, but in the business context Musk knows best there is really not equivalent, so he thinks such spending counts as "inefficiency", turns out countries are not companies and Musk and friends are in for a rude awakening and the country is the one who will suffer because of it as it increasingly alienates it's allies.
- decremental 2y ago[dead]
- bboygravity 2y agoSo you're saying the kid who digitally unwraps Vesivius scrolls is not smart enough to write automated systems to detect that Covid payments to literal "Free money LLC" are likely fraudulent? Just to name an example.
- ben_w 2y agoWithout comment on the guy himself — I assume he's enthusiastically trying to do the best for the world, like most people — there's a huge gap between "let's find and stop very obvious fraud" and "let's cancel all soft power spending everywhere immediately because I don't know what value it has and don't want to spend money for the time it takes to find out". The former is police work. The latter is a practical demonstration of Chesterton's Fence, which is the "conservative" part of the word "conservative".