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The DOGE members are tech bros who are into classic Randian libertarianism,small government that only protects money and property, and all other "public services" would be provided by private markets. They want to make government look weak and impotent so that people like Musk, Bezos, the Waltons, etc can provide those services at a premium or "fuck you". it's a downward spiral that concentrates wealth in the hands of the wealthy and creates a permanent class of serfs and slaves. Until they figure out that won't work here when the masses have had enough and communism starts looking pretty good when you and your children and freezing and starving and you have a basement full of guns and ammo that you can't eat.



Michael Lewis paints a different picture in his book “The Fifth Risk” where govt infrastructure is leveraged for private profits. Ex: AccuWeather uses NOAA data to make their products while lobbying to make the same NOAA data inaccessible to others.


Most of the people that seem to be influential seem to be either Paleo-cons, Rothbardians and people that are believers in the Austrian School of Economics.

I am not an ancap because there are some major problems with their philosophy, but your analysis is just incorrect.




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