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> These people must have never worked at a large corporation

Efficiency isn't the point, the point is funneling more money to themselves and their friends.

Efficiency is not resilient. Supply chains were efficient before Covid and look what happened. Efficiency is a non-goal for government. I’m surprised that DOGE engineers (who presumably have deployed a load balancer or two) don’t understand this.

> I’m surprised that DOGE engineers (who presumably have deployed a load balancer or two) don’t understand this.

You're surprised that the same geniuses who launched a site with an obvious exploit don't understand something about infrastructure? I'm more surprised that they haven't done something like rewriting a critical system in JS (with AI, obviously).

You're overestimating the average competence of engineers. Besides, this is one of those situations where ideology easily trumps reason.

The DOGE engineers are Musk sycophants, and Musk is tearing apart the government so he and other oligarchs can profit off the unmet needs.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/business/elon-musk-faa-air-tr...

Happens in large corporations too.

Purchases of companies owned the CEO / brother. Mother hiring their children to high internal positions.

I was referring to the oligarchs that are running the current US administration. They want to defund the government, make it shitty, and then say the only option to make it better is privatize.

Yup, those with capital are the only ones positioned during times of chaos to take advantage of the situation.

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