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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.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, most actual intelligent people understand that IQ is incredibly flawed at best, and put little stock in it.

But I guess if your goal is "anti-DEI" or whatever, then of course you're cool with intelligence tests that make white people seem smarter.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm a guy with a high "test IQ", and my sister, who is in the normal range is way more succesful that me in most aspects of life. You don't want high "test IQ", you want "smart people" not the same, and far more difficult to measure. High IQ basically means you are good at solving certain types of puzzles

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Exactly. Yes, I can tell you the chronological order of these images very quickly, but good luck getting me to do it.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

And smart people don't often work for free. Unless it's at gunpoint or similar. Though that might be in the plans of fascist assholes like Elongated Muskrat.