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Experts warn about the 'crumbling infrastructure' of federal government data

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99 points xnx | 1 comments | 15 Mar 25 03:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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KennyBlanken ◴[15 Mar 25 04:46 UTC] No.43370057[source]▶
Destroying agencies that collect statistics is a "feature", not a bug.

Why deal with unemployment, declining GDP, etc when you can just shut down the agency figuring out how many people are unemployed and where the GDP is going?

Better yet, outsource it to the guy who gave you $10M in campaign donations or bought your crypto coins and then wink-nodded at you, and give him a $50M contract to do something the feds were doing for $20M - and he lies to make you look better. Win-win-win...

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1. yubblegum ◴[15 Mar 25 16:21 UTC] No.43373483[source]▶
Indeed, how do we know they are "destroyed"?

Would it be 'surprise surprise' when then same oligarchs start companies that provide "essential" services again (with AI trained on publicly owned IP)? And guess what, they also have the rolodex of domain experts that they threw to the unemployment market and who can blame n% of them holding their nose and then going to work for the same (cause you know, gotta feed the family and pay the mortgage).