• SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    His idea of efficiency is having his employees work 60-80 hours a week and firing people that don’t. That does not work with government jobs which are often unionized.

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      Exactly. Also, that sort of efficiency is a myth because people can’t sustain that workload for more than the time required to upskill and get out of that company. You lose good people with knowledge of your operation doing what Elon does.

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      That’s why his “solution” is going to be to replace them by contracting private companies. These will of course happen to exclusively be companies owned by Musk and or Trump.

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        Good point. Their idea of efficiency is hiring their buddies as consultants and then contracting out the work to companies they own or will help them and all at a huge markup. Public private partnerships are rife with graft.