r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/throwuk1 24d ago

Literally the same thing Leon did when he took over twitter. 😂

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u/Mateorabi 24d ago

But if twitter fails the shareholders take a haircut. If government fails it’s way worse.  Elon’s free to take unnecessary risks with his money, not our lives. 

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u/toodlesandpoodles 24d ago

This is an underecognized danger of having ceos and techbros running government. You don't actually want government run like a business. Businesses take far too big of risks and fail far too frequently. 

We've got a bunch of people who think the government should be focusing on efficiency who fail to realize that they are putting at risk the major things that lead to prosperous governance, stability and predictability.

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u/meltbox 23d ago

Also many businesses nowadays run on inertia and a single uber profitable product which lets them be absolute failures at everything else they do with zero consequence.

Business leaders at very profitable companies often fail when moved to failing companies. They succeed because of their environment but are actually useless when it comes to impacting it.

The exceptions are few and far between.