What is the Department of Government Efficiency, and how does it impact public administration and policy-making? This article dives into its purpose and influence. How can government efficiency be improved? What areas should it prioritize?
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It’s a redundant department that should be eliminated.
Darth Obvious / That’s obvious: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/381a9b8b-8ff4-4fa3-b3ff-3dabc086d47d.png
Robber Barons have captured the government is what’s happening.
In other words, we are entering the cyberpunk timeline.
Minus all the cool shit.
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Well… Musk’s heartless ass is killing lots of animals trying to make a data jack.
I don’t know if that qualifies as cool but it is cyberware.
Id argue that the cybernetics are the worst part of cyberpunk personally.
I’d argue it’s the corporate feudalism but I feel you.
I meant from an aesthics and tech point of view, without the corporate feudalism and what not its just mid scifi or if taken to a further extreme grimdark.
That’s a fair analysis.
The other comment said without cool shit and I don’t think there’s anything really cool about cyberpunk aside from mohawks. Cyberware, VR and corporate feudalism are pretty much what defines the genre. So I figured they were referring to cyberware as being the cool shit or VR. And the datajack Musk is working on is what makes full VR possible. At least in theory.
It’s meant to be a dystopian setting not someplace where you want to live, unless you’re the richest man in the world hoping to kick off corporate feudalism.
A miserable little pile of grifters! But enough talk… have at you!
It’s made-up bullshit that’ll be used as a smoke screen for all the inhumanity that’s about to start getting dumped on us daily.
Easy. It’s the Department of FUCK YOU OF YOU ARE NOT A BILLIONAIRE.
Military specifications are often designed around specific manufacturing processes. When the commercial state of the art changes, this leaves the military as the weirdo insisting they be allowed to buy a 1970s toilet seat made out of 1970s plastic. Those can be redesigned to allow purchase of commercially available goods that pass some kind of suitability testing. This is small potatoes, under a billion dollars per year.
The use and prevalence of IDIQ could be reviewed systemically. Some of those contracts are wildly disproportionate in cost to the value they deliver. This could be a few billion dollars per year kind of stuff.
Almost all T&M contracts could be replaced with FFP, or FPLOE. The T&M contract style promotes (very obviously) inefficiency at every level of the delivery process, and this actually gets even worse with growing contract scope. This is tens to maybe a hundred billion dollars per year.
Congress, holistically, should embrace the notion that unspent money should not be deallocated in a future year. The “use it or lose it” approach to budgeting causes everyone subject to Congressional review to find a way (even a silly way) to consume every dollar they are handed. If, instead, authorized money were allowed to accrue for large expenses (the replacement of a technology system, refurbishing an office, expanding a field site - whatever that agency needs) it could reduce the mindset that unspent money means losing power among the thousands of beaurocrats that make purchasing decisions on behalf of our country. I genuinely have no idea how much money is burned unnecessarily this way.
The government should hire its own experts to deliver services to itself. The entire mantra of minimizing costs known up front has produced some of the most massive wastes in history. Almost everything a contractor can do for the government that’s a total cost of more than one person’s salary would be better achieved by hiring a person to do that work directly. This is most obvious (to me) in personal computers, where the government regularly buys what should be powerful, capable machines, but then forgot to specify some requirement, and is forced to purchase a machine with a spinning disk drive, or only 2GB of RAM, or a 720p display, or… Just something obviously wrong, that no one is empowered and knowledgeable to say “This is going to critically hamper the performance of every human handed one of these computers, we need to fix it”. This is done (theoretically) to save sometimes just a few dollars, and adds to the general malaise of “The government doesn’t care about whether its workers are productive” that’s one more push for people with better options to leave government. I won’t even begin to guess at the value lost through having people think of government jobs as paid daycare for those that couldn’t cut it in the commercial world, let alone the way government contractors really are, or are perceived.
There’s probably more, but… Wait, what’s that? They’re not going to be trying to remove the stranglehold of the MIC on the government purchasing apparatus? Well, maybe they can still fix that toilet seat thing.
I need to make toilet seats.
It’s likely to be the equivalent of milk monitor.
Elon will be sat there eating crayons and spouting bullshit until Donald’s pick for road safety destroyer allows him to run Teslas as robotaxis, then he’ll fuck off to be the first trillionaire.
A joke manned after a meme that became a “currency” name that Elon is too stupid to realized died years ago. The meme, not the stupid crypto, I think that’s still around.
Yes, doge is still around and actually spiked wildly after donvict was elected. Or “elected”, doesn’t matter to the people speculating on crypto (and the market).
It’s gone up about 3x what it was worth prior…
TLDR: its unclear as always.
