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.
No high-iq individual will work 2 weeks per week with no pay in a society that requires money to live.
That's a common tactic in scams. You want to weed out the actual intelligent people as early as possible lest they disrupt your scam. That's why scam emails tend to have misspellings and grammatical errors. Smarter people instantly ignore that. Dumb people click on through.
So you're saying we all should apply?
So that we can disrupt this shit
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. —Stephen Hawking
No they won't... but rich people who can afford to support themselves while indulging in their love of making poor people suffer will be lined up around the block.
Making a position unpaid is a classic tactic to keep out the poors.
It's disappointing so many aren't getting this...
It's the same as "unpaid internships" being advantage to rich kids who can afford to work without pay.
Like, there is an inordinate amount of rich assholes that would love to spend 80 hours a week finding way to cut taxes, regulations, and the social safety net.
If you're rich enough to begin with, this could pay a hell of a lot better than anything else you would spend your time on. Couple hundred million in the bank or stock market, and it would be more profitable than any actual job.
And let's be honest, Musk and Trump aren't judging IQ by the freaking Wechsler exam, when rich idiots talk about IQ, they mean zeros in a bank account.
Can you think of any other types of people who might be financially able to volunteer their time here....?
Maybe those who have a vested interest in any number of outcomes that may result from their work there...?
Or those willing to be paid in order to influence recommendations to the highest bidder
Rich assholes who want to influence government will.
Rich assholes who believe they are smart as a side effect of being rich assholes.
They'll get paid by conservative think-tanks under the table so the Dept of Efficiency looks good and can pretend that it's efficient.
This isn't aimed at the idiots who would line up around the block and work for free to be called high IQ by Musk. Doesn't really matter though, it's all performative
They already know exactly what they want to cut, and billionaires don't need a salary to realize profits from deregulation.
The job being "no salary" isn't indicative of how cost effictive a volunteer public servant could be - it is a dinner bell for the wealthy
My goodness we’re gonna be MAGA’d so hard*, can’t wait
*some people (with the best words) are saying this
Evil ones will.
This dipshit thinks he can save the country 2 trillion dollars by firing government workers.
Even if he fired every single government position in the entire country, he couldn't make up 2 fucking trillion dollars out of that. The budget for payroll is, what? Like 15% of the total spending?
So... if I apply for a super high IQ job that's unpaid, does that prove I'm under qualified?
Spoiler
Lot's of people are gonna apply, cause the payment is the chance for grifting
So you need to be rich enough to not need the salary, morally flexible enough to work for Elmo, and stupid enough to brag about your IQ.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. —Stephen Hawking
….. while not understanding the percentiles they gave you on the online IQ test.
Win a grift by pretending you are an idiot
Your opponent is Elon Musk
I think it'd be simultaneously easier, more productive, and more fulfilling to just take the L.
Can this department kick it off by eliminating itself, since it’s a wish.com version of https://www.gao.gov/
Just to make sure I understand. Musk is going to run an orgination who will advise the federal government to cut regulations that are in the way of him making more money. And this is in no way a conflict of interest.
That's specifically why it won't be a government agency. So they won't be bound by any ethics rules. Make no mistake, this is not a silly one-off. This is the first step of privatizing the government.
This message was brought to you by Brando. Water's stupid.
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?
"high-IQ small-government revolutionaries"
No, "rich people," because nobody else can survive with no pay.
At least they're too cheap and lazy to properly push their fascist takeover.
It's just gonna be rich failsons who are loving off their trust funds. It's gonna be bad
They are calling it DOGE? 🙄🙄🙄
100% Musk's idea. Because he doesn't think the other 8 billion humans on the planet are real people and none of this is of any real consequence to him.
Also, fuck that guy.
Edit: and by 'this guy' I mean Ramaswamy. Fuck Musk too.
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
He really believes it’s real.
Oh it's real. It may not be a cabinet position but it can still be a committee.
“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".
How does one apply to live in such futures? Because this timeline looks like a bunch of rich douches will join the committee, use it to get richer and live happily ever after.
I’m guessing they cut government departments, then privatize them by outsourcing the work to their own companies. Sounds like a solid grift.
Tragedy or comedy? Why not both?
Well, if nothing else it's efficient 😬
Anyone smart enough wouldn’t want to work for him.
So, slavery will soon be making a comeback in 2025.
it never went anywhere
They will make their money by fleecing the government of course.
M-elon Head to run the department of slavery with un-paid workers. What an unstable 'genius'.
Text book Elon, pay for super smart people and take all the credit for their work and say you're smart because of it. Guy fails upwards
It literally says in the headline they won't be paid....
high IQ
work for free
lmao, hard pass. Thanks.
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.
Staff it with rich fucks looking for relevence deep in that Musky sphincter and change it to "Department of Getting Eaten". Efficiency accomplished.
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?
Fascists love the notion of a natural order, because it gives them license to hold power over people "lower in the hierarchy." They'll use anything and everything to establish whatever "natural order" serves their purpose at any given moment, and IQ works quite nicely in a lot of situations.
Honestly, most of that headline should be in quotations.
"Elon Musk's" "new department" seeks "super high" IQ "staff" for "unpaid jobs"
"If you're good at something, never do it for free."
i would consider signing up just to see how much shit i could irreparably fuck up before they notice
Sorry, I need to like, not starve to death.
Earth to Elon: Time is money you rich prick.
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.
According to them no one can get anything accomplished in 2 years
The difference is that it's a lot easier and faster to break things than it is to build or repair them.
Not always.
Like, all the deportations, that would "break" our society, but to even attempt it would take huge amounts of money, planning, and competent people. Even to do it poorly.
Hell, even his threat to get rid of Department of Education, he can't just say "you're fired" and then everyone goes home. I mean, he could say that, he could order their pay stopped, he could even lock the doors and shut off all the networked IT.
But there would be a metric shitton of legal proceeding and resulting settlements for years.
It's just crazy to me that everyone thinks turning (at least the remnants of) a democracy into a dictatorship is just fucking declaring it like Michal Scott declares bankruptcy.
He's 100% going to try, I just don't know why people suddenly expect trump and his sycophants magically became competent in the last four years.