That could be $100k though, and that really doesn’t go very far these days.
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I wish this was true. They will get offers for their ingenuity and understanding when to exploit what. Welcome to capitalism.
They'll go to work for Big Oil. They already know the playbook.
They're going to destroy millions of lives, and I doubt any of them know how expendable they are to their billionaire handlers.
Trump had 2 assassination attempts last year ffs, and that was before Elon joined the clusterfuck, the open corruption, or they collapsed the economy. I wouldn't be surprised if half of them are dead in a couple of years.
I wish that were true.
Sadly they're set for life. They will spend however long they have in government building a network that will make them immensely valuable to any number of lobbying firms. We'll be hearing about these dipshits for decades.
I wonder if they meant because once this is over, no one will be able to find jobs.
Re: feature image (an open briefcase filled with cash and money falling haphazardly to the floor) anyone know the explanation/origin of this 80s/90s movie trope? Why was it always a briefcase? Surely there were more convenient and nondescript types of luggage to use for legal tender.
They're government employees, so they're paid on the GS scale, plus a cost-of-living adjustment by region. Of course they're making over 100k, that just means they're a college graduate with about 10 years of experience living in DC.
They absolutely do not have 10 years of experience.
Hey, if you want to layoff people critical to managing nukes and run a lying website that is open to SQL-injection attacks, that takes a lot of "special" knowledge. I think it's great that we're paying dumbasses to fuck things up. What other job could they get with such prestige?
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We should insist the only Elon write code for Doge because he's a million times more qualified based on his net worth.