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Extremely sad to see Sahil is working with DOGE in basically firing hundreds of thousands of Americans (that too disproportionately veterans) in the manner they have been doing it.

I have always liked reading his honest takes on running a company, their unique way of working with non-full-time employees, etc.

I wonder if he has posted about his work in this regard himself?



HN: "Why so many people to do X? This should be like a 20 person startup!"

Also HN: "No....!!! You can't downsize!!!"


Governments are public works projects basically to keep citizens employed, which is why they disproportionately hire veterans, for example.

Running a government as lean as X would also inspire corruption amongst a myriad of other things. This is one reason government jobs are so "cushy", to disincentivize corruption. If the pitch given to Sahil was "Run the government like X" I'm even more ashamed he accepted the premise.


Ah yes, running the US Federal Government and running Twitter are two completely comparable endeavours.


Which one is more efficient?


Efficiency isn't the primary mandate of the government.


Given the government does everything, everywhere, and twitter can barely serve me tweets correctly,I’d say the answer is obvious.


“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.“


Where "wasting the labours of the people" seems in reality to mean "subsidizing rural schools so they have the same education standards as urban schools".

Of course the guy you're misquoting also had slaves, so I'm not sure if I give a shit about his predictions for American's happiness.




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