Elon Musk's new 'department' seeks 'super high-IQ' staff for unpaid jobs
Elon Musk's new 'department' seeks 'super high-IQ' staff for unpaid jobs
Musk said “compensation is zero” for the “revolutionaries” who will advise on cuts to the federal budget.
Summary
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) began recruiting "high-IQ small-government revolutionaries" willing to work 80+ hours per week with no pay to help slash federal spending.
Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.
Musk and Ramaswamy advocate for drastic measures, including cutting grants to nonprofits and potential mass layoffs.
Smart people don't work for the bad guys for free Jack.
Ok, get this. You elect politicians to "help slash federal spending".
What the hell is Musk even doing and why is he outsourcing this job to unpaid idiots, when politicians already get paid to do this?
Okay, I'll do a few suggestions for free:
- Stop subsidizing companies. All of them.
- Tax the rich to boost the federal income.
- Legalize all immigrants so they can be tax paying citizens.
- Crack down on employers using illegal underpaid illegal immigrants.
- Provide universal health care. Sick people don't work.
- Cut down on police force spending.
- Cut down on car infrastructure spending.
- Cut down "defense" spending in artificial oil wars.
- Help Ukraine to defeat Russia, so Russia will have to surrender and disarm their nukes, so that USA can also cut down on cost for maintenance of nukes.
- Expand renewable energy. It's free energy yo, and it creates jobs for tax paying citizens.
- Stop mining fossil fuels. It will cost more to clean that shit up than is earned.
The US are just a bad parody of themselves at this point.
Can this department kick it off by eliminating itself, since it’s a wish.com version of https://www.gao.gov/
Fun idea: Flood their contact addresses with fake applications and fake credentials like certificates with high scores on made-up IQ tests or Mensa membership cards.
I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!
--Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
There are oxymorons and then there is musk, the oxyless moron
There are only two types of "Super High-IQ" people who will go for an unpaid job working in politics for the likes of Musk:
- Very naive young things, hence very inexperienced and who are going to do all mistakes in the book and then some for the next couple of years as they learn the ropes. By the time they know enough about the job they'll be burned out from working for a guy like Musk not to mention knowing enough to know they're better of elsewhere.
- Grifters looking for making maximum money from being in politics. Since they're not getting paid, that means corruption, lots and lots of corruption.
Also, even amongst the "very naive young things", in my own personal experience, the high intelligent types with the personality to be real believers of far right stuff, are at most above average intelligence but below genius level IQ (which is 120) and hence not really "super high"-IQ (which would more 160+) - I once worked with a guy like that who thought himself very intelligent and in his new job ended up working in an office with two genious level colleagues and he was very entertaining because of his "buttons" were so obvious and he was so easy to give the run around.
Super-high IQ people are often the very opposite of street smart, but one thing they aren't is stupid and at most fall into the first part of the saying "you can deceive most people some of the time, or some people all of the time, but you can't deceive most people all of the time" - they can be swindled but they'll figure it out faster than most.
Cut grants to non profits, but keep corporate welfare for the rich. America!
They will make their money by fleecing the government of course.
Much like unpaid internships, this is also a method to prevent anyone who is not independently wealthy from applying, so they can fill the department with the same people already benefiting from the current system and allow them to design one that benefits them even further.
No one that this department is ostensibly built to serve can afford to work on it, so who is it really (clearly) for?
Ah, this will be the Department of Dunning-Kruger. The workers are idiots who think they are supergeniuses. Led by an idiot who thinks he's a supergenius.
During Trump's first term, this was just a metaphor, suggested by random comedians. Now, life will imitate art to its full extent.
"high-IQ small-government revolutionaries"
No, "rich people," because nobody else can survive with no pay.
Department of Government Efficiency is the name of the department that ends up involved in creating Soylent green or some crazy human organ harvesting thing.
This sets off all sorts of red flags that bother the shit out of me. Like I'll take boring dystopia over human slaughterhouses TYVM
"High-IQ" aka boot lickers who agree with everything Musk says or does and are willing to do so for no compensation. And let's consider those who have the financial means "work" for free. The over privileged fundees who think they earned their wealth by hard work even those its all daddy's money... Rining any bells? Unpaid positions are exactly what we don't need to help with combat our economic woes anyways.
“Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) began recruiting “high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work 80+ hours per week with no pay to help slash federal spending.
Future headline : “Department of Government Efficiency still completely without staff as those meeting the high requirements to take the job are smart enough to have zero interest in doing the job under those conditions"
Alternate future headline: "Department of Government Efficiency plagued by yet another scandal as its 45th employee is charged with fraud for attempting to personally gain financially from fraud they were perpetrating in the government".
I don't know about you all but as soon as Trump was elected I immediately resolved to cut my personal spending by as much as humanly possible. I've already canceled many of my subscription services and I have reduced my use of Amazon and other online purchases to absolute zero. I'm going to work on paying down every dime of debt I owe as soon as possible and save every penny. Because shit's going to get fucked in the next 4 years with these clowns in charge. It's gonna be a light Christmas in my household this year.
I highly recommend you all do the same. Don't be the last one holding the bag when the music stops and reality sets in. For example, look at the people in the UK after Brexit.
Tragedy or comedy? Why not both?
Anyone smart enough wouldn’t want to work for him.
lol good luck picking candidates among highly intelligent incels and maga members
Well, if nothing else it's efficient 😬
There are gonna be lots of applicants from the Intelligence Institute of Texas...
This is fucking hilarious! More proof, maybe the best proof, of how much of a dumbass Muskrat is.
Maybe he should ask Trump since everything he does is the best and has never been done better or before.
M-elon Head to run the department of slavery with un-paid workers. What an unstable 'genius'.
high IQ
work for free
lmao, hard pass. Thanks.
High IQ people only wanted to do paid work for SpaceX because going to space is amazing.
I'm fairly sure none are working because of him though
Even paid work for any other Musk jobs would be an act of desperation. Fortunately, I suspect the unemployment rate will grow with Trump in charge.. Because it is likely more profitable to beg than make minimum wage (and he won't be increasing it). So maybe he will find people.
These people who get so incredulous about "soft" social sciences, (think critical theory) yet talk about IQ testing like it's Newton's 4th law do not value, or do not understand the science. Even the serious people who defend IQ in good faith, speak of it with qualifications.
What is so attractive about a system to categorize and rank humanity? And what do the people who are attracted to it have in common?
Staff it with rich fucks looking for relevence deep in that Musky sphincter and change it to "Department of Getting Eaten". Efficiency accomplished.
Would you do that, Elon? No you would not. And you'd be tweeting unfunny mocking bullshit at someone who did in any other circumstances.
i would consider signing up just to see how much shit i could irreparably fuck up before they notice
Last time I checked my IQ it was 129. Not super high but not trump level
IS use to mean Information System. It now means Intellectual Slavery.
"If you're good at something, never do it for free."
Sorry, I need to like, not starve to death.
Earth to Elon: Time is money you rich prick.
Nobody was smart as he thinks they should be will work for free - especially not for him and the orange idiot.
Seems like something people would not want to do.
Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.
I don't know why all the people who defended Biden wasting two years of the House/Senate are so worried about trump having 2 years of the House/Senate.
According to them no one can get anything accomplished in 2 years, and historically trump won't hold onto both the House and Senate for midterms.
The big difference seems to be Trump's incoming admin isn't waiting till 1/6 to start thinking about stuff, so they've got a big headstart on Biden's admin.
It's going to be real fucking embarrassing for moderates if trump pulls off something they just spent four years claiming was impossible.
