Here’s my hot take. DOGE is actually about collecting information under the guise of ‘saving money’. This information will then be used to train AI networks for products that e.g. Musk sells to the US and world-wide goverments to make decisions.
This is why I think Musk is trying to curry favour with other politicians around the world to collect even more information to train for products for them. e.g. in the UK, Nigel Farage who has been paid by Musk, is now singing Musk’s tune stating that each local council “needs a DOGE” (for no apparent reason) and shouldn’t be doing things like making local decisions to help climate change. Removing power from local councils would create a more powerful goverment… a fascist state perhaps…?
There was a lot of talk about using AI to power goverments at the start of Trump’s term which is now very quiet.
Thoughts?
No, DOGE is about dismantling/looting the parts of government that are capable of regulating and taxing oligarchs in the name of ‘saving money.’ If they somehow do actually save any money (and with the recent removal of most of their ‘successes’ from the website even that is heavily debatable) it will just go into more tax breaks for the rich.
Data harvesting is just part of the looting, but it’s gravy, not the main course.
Oligarchs? Don’t be surprised if one greedy piece of shit decided to do this specifically for him and his greedy soulless corporate.