• Riskable@programming.dev
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    14 hours ago

    At least they’re open about it: The entire point (according to them) is attrition. The actual plan is to make work for these people much more hostile so they quit.

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      13 hours ago

      Do you think our tax bills will drop if they succeed in forcing these million employees to quit?

      They said they want to run the government like a business, and it looks like that’s what they’re pursuing. Unfortunately, that just means they’ll give us the lowest quality service at the highest possible price.

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        10 hours ago

        They said they want to run the government like a business,

        In other words: terribly. They want to run the government terribly, exactly how business runs in this country.

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            40 minutes ago

            They’ll spend all of their time changing the direction of what everyone is working on, hiring and firing people, and doing re-orgs…just like a real US business!