Musk asks 'high-IQ revolutionaries' to work for no pay on new Trump project

[groundloop]

Source: The Guardian

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are asking Americans who are “high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” and willing to work over 80 hours a week to join their new Department of Government Efficiency – at zero pay.

In a new X post on Thursday that doubled as a job announcement and another one of Musk’s trolling attempts, the account for the newly formed Doge wrote: “We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.”

The name of the department, which is not part of the federal government, harkens back to a meme of an expressive shiba inu dog.

“If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants,” the statement added.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/14/elon-musk-trump

[Ocelot II]

1. People with high IQs aren't going to work for a billionaire for free.

[groundloop]

10. It'll be rich MAGATs who want to set policy for their own personal gain

[TheFarseer]

82. Ding ding ding, we have a Winner!

The 80 hours per week is going to include a lot of things that won’t look like work to non-billionaires.

[Escurumbele]

58. "Department of Government Efficiency"...What a sarcastic name for a department, I read the name of it

and thoughts of George Orwell's "1984" came to mind immediately.

"Efficiency" by republicans? It has to be doublespeak. Or maybe they want to efficiently rip the country apart? Which is something evil people do. Its not that they are incompetent, they are just very competent at evil.

[cloudbase]

65. They're so efficient that they need two people to head it up.

[Linda ladeewolf]

81. That's okay

Musk will have the really stupid ones convinced they are real geniuses in no time! Then they’ll go around telling everyone how smart they are just like trump and musk.

[Phoenix61]

2. It seems he's figured out there's no budget for the new department.😂

[okaawhatever]

36. No there's no authority for it. Not to mention formally hiring a federal employee requires background

checks, then a bunch of laws would pertain to them as federal employees.

[ck4829]

3. Get people to work for no pay? Well, that is how billionaires become billionaires.

[LiberalArkie]

56. No pension is the big things

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

4. WAIT, WUT?!! Is Musty high from his & his drug buddies' stash? Just my humble opinion, IF they actually have HIGH IQ,

they'd have to be HIGH AF, CRAZY AF & or find themselves the happy & lucky owners of IQs in the LOW single digits...

[Midnight Writer]

5. I'm looking for dim witted, drug addled billionaires to give me money for nothing. Any takers?

[The Madcap]

6. For $2 million a year, maybe

I'll pretend to work for those fools, but I'm definitely not giving away 80 hours a week for free to work to destroy America. Not a chance.

[AZ8theist]

30. I wouldn't work for those fucking NAZI ASSHOLES for $2MIL A DAY!!!!!

or $2 MILLION A MINUTE.

I'm not that much of a jerk-off. THEY ARE.

[The Madcap]

31. Ok. I will

Have to up my price....$2 billion a year and a way to get off the island...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. High IQ is not equivalent to wisdom

Most people with high IQ know that IQ is a broken concept. Most intelligent people know that simply saying "intelligent people" is more on point than "high-IQ people".

Most intelligent people are too smart to work for zero pay.

I suspect that of people willing to work for the richest man for zero pay, ... I suspect more of them are trust fund babies than highly intelligent people.

[Hippasus]

57. Old and Wise

[Escurumbele]

59. Beautiful and sad...thank you for posting, always liked Alan Parsons Project

[Bernardo de La Paz]

60. Welcome to DU Hippasus. . . . . . . nt

[Ndp5]

8. Eye-roll

No one with a high IQ wants to join that administration, much less for free. Musk is selling aspirational nonsense to people who
hope to become rich by osmosis. As if Musk and his ilk got obscenely wealthy by toiling 80 hours a week for free.

Keep smoking that stuff, Elon.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Sure, it you and Vivek are going to be in the office with me for the entire 80 hours.

You're willing to do what you ask of others. Right?

[TBF]

11. lol - guess he finally figured out he's not getting paid so

he's trying to recruit somebody else to do it

[Marthe48]

12. What a contradiction of characterisitcs

Low IQs, if any, in the Neo Know Nothing party.

[Bengus81]

13. People need a high IQ to understand what Eloon wants for America??

He just wants all programs ended that people who aren't rich want and need to survive and that CASH stuffed into his and other billionaires bank accounts.

See how simple the concept is? Even a caveman could figure it out.

[Autumn]

14. Anyone with a high IQ isn't going to work 80 hours a week with no pay.

[geniph]

15. Cheap asshole isn't even willing to use his own money

to fund his imaginary "department."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Yavin4]

16. Anyone willing to do this job

Automatically does not meet the qualifications for the job.

[JoseBalow]

17. The irony is that only an IDIOT would work 80 hrs/wk for free

Dude is literally a caricature of himself

[JT45242]

18. As a high IQ former teacher 80 hours of work for little pay was typical

But little pay is more than no pay.

But the poor pay kept all the other national merit scholars that I went to school with to stay away.

But, no way in hell would I work for apartheid Clyde and his clown car companion for free.

[niyad]

43. Difference is, you were working in a necessary, honourable, necessary,

profession, of which at least one of the assumed goals was education for a better life.

[Skittles]

53. "apartheid Clyde and his clown car companion"

STOP IT JT45242, YER KILLING ME

[DBoon]

19. Sounds like working for Elon' s family emerald mine

You can eliminate apartheid, but you can't get the apartheid mentality out of wealthy South African whitrs

[Kid Berwyn]

68. They do know the formula.

Free labor means free money.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. Leon has to ask people to work for no pay because trump appointed musk to a non-existent agency with no budget

trump is playing musk for a fool

Link to tweet

Who is gonna tell them ?

Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to a non-existent cabinet position. They are both appointed to head up the DOGE. The DOGE is supposedly the Dept. Of Government Efficiency but in reality it does not exist. There are no employees and Musk and Ramaswamy have no power all.
Did Trump pull a fast one on Musk and Ramaswamy? It sure looks like it. Appointed to a non existent pseudo cabinet position means zilch. Wonder how long it will take for Musk and Ramaswamy to realize they ,like millions of Trump voters have been duped by Donald Trump ?

[Dave Bowman]

51. Talk about a genius.

[Crowman2009]

21. This is typical bs that social media companies tell the entertainers under contract.

That they'll get exposure.

[PedroXimenez]

22. to be considered you have to let Elon put his chip in your brain n/t

[Aussie105]

23. I always thought Musk was a bit strange.

But this is beyond strange, beyond weird!

I'm sure both will sit in an office somewhere and wait for the applications to stream in.
No intelligent person would work an 80 hour week, even if it paid well.
They know what a 16 hour work day would do to their intelligence!

Going to be a quiet time for those two.
Musty and Swammy - what a team!

Shouldn't be too hard to pick the top 1%, 1% of zero is still zero.

May I suggest that the 'efficiency' moniker is really just looking for cost cutting, and they could start by cutting politicians' wages and defunding Musk's government contracts?

[niyad]

44. And ending subsidues for the most profitable industries in the world, ie..,

the extraction industries.

[Skittles]

55. when Musk promises "economic pain"

Trump voters have zero clue THIS INCLUDES THEM.

[xuplate]

24. Man Baby

Elon Musk might just be the most immature person in the public eye.

[FirstLight]

25. Lmfao 😆😆😆

0h, the schadenfreude is going to be so fun!

[orwell]

26. Why can't Grok do it?

I thought X/Grok was the greatest AI revolution on the planet!

what...Eloon said that...oh...nevermind...

[LatteLady]

27. Pause and briefly think

How intelligent is someone who will work 80 hours a week for no pay and no benefits for a billionaire who could pay you well if he wanted?

[Aussie105]

28. Revolutionaries?

I have a different word for people who would want to look for cost savings in the government and will do that for 80 hours a week for no pay.

[CentralMass]

29. Im sure Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan and Chaci will be all over that..

[oasis]

48. Hulk has the IQ of a sand crab. He can't qualify.

[jmowreader]

62. He's still smarter than Trump

[Montauk6]

32. Welp... Trump did imply he wanted to return to 1798

[Borogove]

33. For a smart man, he is astonishingly stupid.

[johnnyfins]

34. Sorry muskrat. All the smart people

Voted for Kamala...

[Kennah]

35. Trump's people emphasize High portion while ignoring the IQ portion

[imaginary girl]

37. So does that mean businesses will sponsor employees to represent their interests?

[Intractable]

38. He's just collecting resumes from people who are tech-smart but people-stupid.

[Xipe Totec]

39. People with real high IQ are not susceptible to flattery. nt

[Aussie105]

40. Can I work remotely for Musk?

Dear Musk!
I will work for you.
But I will need to be paid, and work a 4 hour day.
100 Krugerrands delivered before I start working.
Now, what are the details of the job?
I have some cost cutting ideas, like stop funding overseas wars, defunding private space exploration, stuff like that!

Waiting in anticipation!
Alfred E Neuman

[canuckledragger]

41. And by 'high-IQ revolutionaries', he means gullible idiots.

[Kablooie]

42. Anyone that rates themself as High IQ is going to be a low IQ buffoon.

As Trump illustrates.
Real high IQ people use their IQ and don't need to flaunt it.

[Skittles]

45. this is an attempt to get around background checks

what fucking reputable person would do this?

[oldmanlynn]

49. I sure hope we have these kinds of strategy sessions

Why not meet and discuss how your going to blow up the us government and Change the treasury to the RNC Bank.

[generalbetrayus]

50. "high-IQ small-government revolutionaries"

is the best new oxymoron I've heard in a long time. Emphasis on the "moron" part.

[pat_k]

52. Biggest f-ing laugh I've had in days!

[jmbar2]

61. All the big consulting firms have Change Management practices

They get paid out the wazoo on multiyear contracts to map out how to make major changes in organizations. It's very complex.

Elon is asking people off the street to do brain surgery for free. What could go wrong?

[jmowreader]

63. Mr. Musk, I know how to save $175 million over four years and I can do it in a week!

"And how would you do that?" he asks.

"It's very simple: We impeach Trump for attempting to create a government agency without the approval of Congress, impeach everyone in his Cabinet for not trying to stop him, and keep on impeaching people until we get down to the first Democrat on the list. Then we make that person president and call it good."

Seriously though, are we really supposed to take advice on efficiency from an asshole who blew up a $50 million experimental rocket and destroyed his launch pad because he was too cheap to spray enough water under the rocket before he fired it?

[barbtries]

64. he'll give away a million dollars to buy votes

but won't pay these people?

what?

[japple]

66. He did, however, specify "Must be high school graduate."

n/t

[Blue_Tires]

67. Only white men of the correct ideology need apply

[4catsmom]

69. richest guy on the planet

telling others to work for free and for Americans to 'get ready for some belt tightening' is SO spot on Republican

[4catsmom]

70. on brand

telling others to work for free and for Americans to 'get ready for some belt tightening' is SO spot on Republican

[travelingthrulife]

71. So only rich idiots need apply. Got it eloon.

The illegal immigrant is calling.

[OnionPatch]

72. When are the intelligent people on OUR side

Going to join together and figure out how to stop these nutjobs? That's what I'd really like to see. I know we have more brains on our side.

[Justice matters.]

75. That clown thinks underlings will work 80hrs/wk for free while

he earns ten billions in one day doing nothing (posting lies and extreme right wing propaganda on x is not working).

[Doodley]

76. Demanding 80 hours and no less is an insult to anyone's intelligence and shows that Musk is a dick.

[Martin68]

77. There seems to be a disconnect between "high IQ" and "work for no pay."

[stillcool]

78. no pay.

do they get tipped?

[republianmushroom]

79. Well this way they will know up front they are not going to get paid.

The convicted felon won't have to stiff them.

[wryter2000]

80. Let him donate good salaries

If he expects others to sacrifice.

[struggle4progress]

83. "Project to rob America blind"

[sakabatou]

84. Can we put a wall around Muskrat, Cask of Amontillado-style?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

85. "You can't be surprised that the white African guy's first idea is slavery."

Link to tweet