- The USIP is now headed by a 28-year-old, per a federal court filing.
- DOGE named Nate Cavanaugh, a tech entrepreneur and college dropout, as the USIP’s acting president.
- Lawyers for the USIP said nearly all of the institute’s staff in the US have been fired.
What’s wrong with 28? Attack them for who they are, but we need younger people too.
“DOGE named Nate Cavanaugh, a tech entrepreneur and college dropout, as the USIP’s acting president.”
That’s the alarming part.
Bill Gates is a tech entrepreneur and college drop out. His age, at least gives him experience and (hopefully) wisdom.
He never made anything, just repackaged others work and his mommy worked at IBM. His 20 year old self would be working at DODGE right now.
Are you saying that’s a good thing? Maybe 20-year-olds shouldn’t be running government agencies.
Him? No. someone who won model U.N. in highscool, was on their collegestudent boards or student president, has a law degree? Yes. Being old doesn’t make you good at something.
He has achieved a bunch of academic larping. These aren’t suitable experiences qualifying for sudden leadership of a large organization. Experiential learning is deeply important for high level leadership positions. The nature of time and space mean he simply cannot have this quality yet. Digging your heels in otherwise is such a braindead position to take. Jfc
We have Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch Mconell in congress, we have an 80 year old as president. The older you get the more cynical you become, you begin to refuse to learn anything new. Sure, there needs to be a few greybeards to give advice about that thing that happened in 98’ but they just don’t have the current knowledge and youthful optimism required for true leadership.
“The pilots are crashing the plane because they’re too old… so we should replace them with pilots who have never flown a plane before but have really good hand eye coordination and who did well at PE class”… no bro we should just find some pilots who know how to fly a plane but aren’t fucking ancient rather than over correct to a worse position
I don’t believe his mother worked at IBM but she was on a lot of corporate boards and was on the board of United Way where John Opel the then CEO of IBM was also serving as a board member.
Now it’s a distinction without a difference as it still shows how not self made he was, but I’m a pedant.
He wrote Altair Basic, which is more than just repackaging. I can only assume he tended towards more business related tasks after that though.
They’re trying to gift themselves the USIP building aswell
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
This reminds me of an ad i saw for a 25 year old life coach.
28? That could very well be the most senior member of DOGE. Everyone older than that knows better.
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What’s the problem with his age? It’s about time we start to replace the fucking boomers in government.
There’s a lot of problems with Doge, but age isn’t one of them.
There’s a decade or five in between “barely postgraduate” and “belongs in an assisted living facility.”
I want people in charge of significant government functions to have significant lived knowledge and experience in the field.
Because diplomacy requires experience, that’s why
Agreed that the government needs younger people, but there’s a reason why the minimum age for president in the US is 36.
The max age should be 41.
The maximum age for the President, or someone in the Senate/Congress should be based on a percentage of the average livespan of everyone in the country.
It’s adaptive and also incentivizes them to make choices which will benefit everyone’s health, rather than the health of the elite.
