Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Elon Musk “one of the most unintelligent billionaires” she has ever met.
She criticized DOGE for placing unqualified 19-year-olds in Treasury positions and failing to do “their homework.”
Musk’s team has accessed the Treasury’s $6 trillion payment system, raising security concerns. Ocasio-Cortez warned of his “lack of intelligence and expertise,” calling him “morally vacant.”
DOGE has also shut down USAID and moved it under the State Department.
In my job I’ve dealt with a number of multi-millionaires and I’m usually struck by just how dumb and incompetent they are.
The economy does not reward hard work or intelligence, it rewards hubris and megalomania.
Those qualities occasionally help people break through to wealth, but mostly the economy rewards already being rich. Having rich parents is how you become rich.
“But I have no intelligence but plenty of hubris with aspirations of megalomania” - The Average American.
*while wearing a cross
FTFY
The funny thing is that as much hubris as some folks show, they have nothing on those that have it in them to get to multi-millionaire status.
You’ll see someone so full of hubris and just talking out of their ass, but faced with a question or statement that derails their talk, even those people will kind of pause while their brain struggles with what the hell just happened, before carrying on generally still out of their ass, but they stammered for a bit to get back to that hubris.
Those that have the real hubris in them, don’t even bat an eye. They don’t even consider for a millisecond that information inconsistent with their world view is worth processing.