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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m curious how people who are supposed to be geniuses didn’t understand how to analyze the cost of firing so many federal workers. [/quote]

It's a core tenet of their techbro culture that they are the only ones who know anything. If they don't know it, the information must not exist - rather than simply be unknown [i]to them[/i]. 
That's why you see people say "Oh, we won't know the effects of [policy] until we try" or "Oh, we don't know how many staff we need until after we've fired them and seen what breaks" - no, we actually do know, there are whole fields of study on how to forecast that. You just didn't bother to listen to the people who knew.

I would be deeply embarrassed to be so catastrophically wrong about things other people could have told me (or did tell me). But it doesn't seem to bother them. [/quote]

Thanks to the OP for posting a gift link.

I studied Silicon Valley for trends analysis purposes before Covid.  All the startup companies, unicorns, etc.  So  many jerks and so much broken.[/quote]

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