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> why Elon is sending a team of teenage programmers and not a team of financial auditors if he really wanted to cut government spending?

History has one answer for the deployment of reams of young fiery-loyalist men to the front lines: cannon fodder.

Old enough to do the job, too young to ask the right questions.

IMO it's more reminiscent of Red Guards from Cultural Revolution era China.

And university students during the Iranian Revolution.