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Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)

Elon is most certainly self-interested here, and abuse of the system is extremely likely, but I think you underestimate how broken things really are, and how much appetite there is for change, even bad, disruptive change, from those trying to operate in good faith within it.

Also, not material, but GSA oversees about $100B in spending out of $6.75 trillion. It's not that much. And it really doesn't set procurement policy all that much. Office of Federal Procurement Policy in WH has the real policy power.