Musk asks 'high-IQ revolutionaries' to work for no pay on new Trump project
Source: The Guardian
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are asking Americans who are high-IQ small-government revolutionaries and willing to work over 80 hours a week to join their new Department of Government Efficiency at zero pay.
In a new X post on Thursday that doubled as a job announcement and another one of Musks trolling attempts, the account for the newly formed Doge wrote: We dont need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.
The name of the department, which is not part of the federal government, harkens back to a meme of an expressive shiba inu dog.
If thats you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants, the statement added.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/14/elon-musk-trump
Ocelot II
(121,502 posts)groundloop
(12,386 posts)TheFarseer
(9,522 posts)The 80 hours per week is going to include a lot of things that wont look like work to non-billionaires.
Escurumbele
(3,649 posts)and thoughts of George Orwell's "1984" came to mind immediately.
"Efficiency" by republicans? It has to be doublespeak. Or maybe they want to efficiently rip the country apart? Which is something evil people do. Its not that they are incompetent, they are just very competent at evil.
cloudbase
(5,796 posts)Linda ladeewolf
(493 posts)Musk will have the really stupid ones convinced they are real geniuses in no time! Then theyll go around telling everyone how smart they are just like trump and musk.
Phoenix61
(17,725 posts)okaawhatever
(9,550 posts)checks, then a bunch of laws would pertain to them as federal employees.
ck4829
(36,125 posts)LiberalArkie
(16,660 posts)The_REAL_Ecumenist
(889 posts)they'd have to be HIGH AF, CRAZY AF & or find themselves the happy & lucky owners of IQs in the LOW single digits...
Midnight Writer
(23,135 posts)jfz9580m
(15,584 posts)That was funny
The Madcap
(596 posts)I'll pretend to work for those fools, but I'm definitely not giving away 80 hours a week for free to work to destroy America. Not a chance.
AZ8theist
(6,555 posts)or $2 MILLION A MINUTE.
I'm not that much of a jerk-off. THEY ARE.
The Madcap
(596 posts)Have to up my price....$2 billion a year and a way to get off the island...
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,275 posts)Most people with high IQ know that IQ is a broken concept. Most intelligent people know that simply saying "intelligent people" is more on point than "high-IQ people".
Most intelligent people are too smart to work for zero pay.
I suspect that of people willing to work for the richest man for zero pay, ... I suspect more of them are trust fund babies than highly intelligent people.
Hippasus
(54 posts)Escurumbele
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Bernardo de La Paz
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No one with a high IQ wants to join that administration, much less for free. Musk is selling aspirational nonsense to people who
hope to become rich by osmosis. As if Musk and his ilk got obscenely wealthy by toiling 80 hours a week for free.
Keep smoking that stuff, Elon.
keithbvadu2
(40,522 posts)You're willing to do what you ask of others. Right?
TBF
(34,754 posts)he's trying to recruit somebody else to do it
Marthe48
(19,341 posts)Low IQs, if any, in the Neo Know Nothing party.
Bengus81
(7,497 posts)He just wants all programs ended that people who aren't rich want and need to survive and that CASH stuffed into his and other billionaires bank accounts.
See how simple the concept is? Even a caveman could figure it out.
Autumn
(46,668 posts)geniph
(12,599 posts)to fund his imaginary "department."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yavin4
(36,615 posts)Automatically does not meet the qualifications for the job.
JoseBalow
(5,655 posts)Dude is literally a caricature of himself
JT45242
(2,995 posts)But little pay is more than no pay.
But the poor pay kept all the other national merit scholars that I went to school with to stay away.
But, no way in hell would I work for apartheid Clyde and his clown car companion for free.
niyad
(120,684 posts)profession, of which at least one of the assumed goals was education for a better life.
Skittles
(160,331 posts)STOP IT JT45242, YER KILLING ME
DBoon
(23,173 posts)You can eliminate apartheid, but you can't get the apartheid mentality out of wealthy South African whitrs
Kid Berwyn
(18,361 posts)Free labor means free money.
LetMyPeopleVote
(155,550 posts)trump is playing musk for a fool
Link to tweet
Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to a non-existent cabinet position. They are both appointed to head up the DOGE. The DOGE is supposedly the Dept. Of Government Efficiency but in reality it does not exist. There are no employees and Musk and Ramaswamy have no power all.
Did Trump pull a fast one on Musk and Ramaswamy? It sure looks like it. Appointed to a non existent pseudo cabinet position means zilch. Wonder how long it will take for Musk and Ramaswamy to realize they ,like millions of Trump voters have been duped by Donald Trump ?
Dave Bowman
(3,867 posts)Crowman2009
(2,847 posts)That they'll get exposure.
PedroXimenez
(630 posts)Aussie105
(6,477 posts)But this is beyond strange, beyond weird!
I'm sure both will sit in an office somewhere and wait for the applications to stream in.
No intelligent person would work an 80 hour week, even if it paid well.
They know what a 16 hour work day would do to their intelligence!
Going to be a quiet time for those two.
Musty and Swammy - what a team!
Shouldn't be too hard to pick the top 1%, 1% of zero is still zero.
May I suggest that the 'efficiency' moniker is really just looking for cost cutting, and they could start by cutting politicians' wages and defunding Musk's government contracts?
niyad
(120,684 posts)the extraction industries.
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Skittles
(160,331 posts)Trump voters have zero clue THIS INCLUDES THEM.
xuplate
(7 posts)Elon Musk might just be the most immature person in the public eye.
FirstLight
(14,311 posts)0h, the schadenfreude is going to be so fun!
orwell
(8,002 posts)I thought X/Grok was the greatest AI revolution on the planet!
what...Eloon said that...oh...nevermind...
LatteLady
(49 posts)How intelligent is someone who will work 80 hours a week for no pay and no benefits for a billionaire who could pay you well if he wanted?
Aussie105
(6,477 posts)I have a different word for people who would want to look for cost savings in the government and will do that for 80 hours a week for no pay.
CentralMass
(15,599 posts)oasis
(51,809 posts)jmowreader
(51,608 posts)Montauk6
(8,768 posts)Borogove
(47 posts)johnnyfins
(1,485 posts)Voted for Kamala...
Kennah
(14,465 posts)imaginary girl
(923 posts)Intractable
(596 posts)Xipe Totec
(44,109 posts)Aussie105
(6,477 posts)Dear Musk!
I will work for you.
But I will need to be paid, and work a 4 hour day.
100 Krugerrands delivered before I start working.
Now, what are the details of the job?
I have some cost cutting ideas, like stop funding overseas wars, defunding private space exploration, stuff like that!
Waiting in anticipation!
Alfred E Neuman
canuckledragger
(1,992 posts)Kablooie
(18,794 posts)As Trump illustrates.
Real high IQ people use their IQ and don't need to flaunt it.
Skittles
(160,331 posts)what fucking reputable person would do this?
jfz9580m
(15,584 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 15, 2024, 05:53 AM - Edit history (1)
For the next four years.
Oh Well! (Hat tip to hatrack)
Anyway wtf happened to Vance?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/09/elon-musk-trump-administration
Not that I am complaining! Thank god he is silent. I hope he stays that way.
oldmanlynn
(512 posts)Why not meet and discuss how your going to blow up the us government and Change the treasury to the RNC Bank.
generalbetrayus
(668 posts)is the best new oxymoron I've heard in a long time. Emphasis on the "moron" part.
pat_k
(10,883 posts)jmbar2
(6,239 posts)They get paid out the wazoo on multiyear contracts to map out how to make major changes in organizations. It's very complex.
Elon is asking people off the street to do brain surgery for free. What could go wrong?
jmowreader
(51,608 posts)"And how would you do that?" he asks.
"It's very simple: We impeach Trump for attempting to create a government agency without the approval of Congress, impeach everyone in his Cabinet for not trying to stop him, and keep on impeaching people until we get down to the first Democrat on the list. Then we make that person president and call it good."
Seriously though, are we really supposed to take advice on efficiency from an asshole who blew up a $50 million experimental rocket and destroyed his launch pad because he was too cheap to spray enough water under the rocket before he fired it?
barbtries
(29,955 posts)but won't pay these people?
what?
japple
(10,388 posts)n/t
Blue_Tires
(56,752 posts)4catsmom
(291 posts)telling others to work for free and for Americans to 'get ready for some belt tightening' is SO spot on Republican
4catsmom
(291 posts)telling others to work for free and for Americans to 'get ready for some belt tightening' is SO spot on Republican
travelingthrulife
(959 posts)The illegal immigrant is calling.
OnionPatch
(6,238 posts)Going to join together and figure out how to stop these nutjobs? That's what I'd really like to see. I know we have more brains on our side.
Justice matters.
(7,592 posts)he earns ten billions in one day doing nothing (posting lies and extreme right wing propaganda on x is not working).
Doodley
(10,452 posts)Martin68
(24,735 posts)stillcool
(32,806 posts)do they get tipped?
republianmushroom
(18,179 posts)The convicted felon won't have to stiff them.
wryter2000
(47,602 posts)If he expects others to sacrifice.