What's wrong with 28? Attack them for who they are, but we need younger people too.
"DOGE named Nate Cavanaugh, a tech entrepreneur and college dropout, as the USIP's acting president."
That's the alarming part.
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The person in charge of USIP should be a person not only with a relevant advanced degree, but also at least couple decades of experience in international diplomacy. A 28 year-old hasn't been on earth long enough to even sort-of have the expertise required, even if we could charitably assume they chose a once in a generation child genius who got 2 PhDs by 16.
So, is this kid taking the full funding of usip and pocketing it or is his salary like $130k? Also, are we pretending the agency still exists, or what?
It's not a goverment agency, it's a non-profit org.
Then how can DOGE dictate who their president is?
They can't.
That's only if you are assuming they are expected to do anything other than be a placeholder whole it gets shut down. They are a loyal signature authority, full stop.
Mediation is about being the dumbest person in the room. You bring the parties together and let them come to an agreement. You are meerly a facilitator.
I did a mediation workshop a few years ago and that is verbatim what the attourney that runs the organization said. Your job is to act as a neutral third party and ask questions like why are we here? What would you like to accomplish? Can you tell me more about that? And etc. Usually disputes come down to one or both parties not knowing what the other knows. Even if you can see what the iasue is, it is not your job to tell them, but to come to conclusions on their own because you don't know the full scope of the issues.
Mediation is different than arbitration in that mediators don't make a determination.
https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/robbins-the-dumbest-person-in-the-room/
Man, it sounds like you should be leading USIP instead.
For starters I would have those little DOGE fucks arrested for tresspassing so that I don't look like a weak little bitch.
dumbest person in the room
meerly
Without meer, I guess.
Lol, no.
That sounds like a terrible way to facilitate anything other than making the conflict worse.
I did a mediation workshop a few years ago and that is verbatim what the attourney that runs the organization said. Your job is to act as a neutral third party and ask questions like why are we here? What would you loke to accomplish? Can you tell me more about that? And etc. Usually disputes come down to one or both parties not knowing what the other knows. Even if you can see what the iasue is, it is not your job to tell them, but to come to conclusions on their own because you don't know the full scope of the iasues.
Mediation is different than arbitration in that mediators don't make a determination.
https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/robbins-the-dumbest-person-in-the-room/
I think you misunderstood what "the dumbest person in the room means". It doesn't mean to be literally dumb, it means to pretend to not know anything and boil down the conflict to facts instead of perception of what the other party wants. It takes fucking skill and experience to steer the conversation in a constructive way and to keep two opposing parties in check, steering the conversation away from conflict to understanding each others viewpoint.
I'm not the one who misunderstood that, lmao.
Bill Gates is a tech entrepreneur and college drop out. His age, at least gives him experience and (hopefully) wisdom.
He never made anything, just repackaged others work and his mommy worked at IBM. His 20 year old self would be working at DODGE right now.
Are you saying that's a good thing? Maybe 20-year-olds shouldn't be running government agencies.
Him? No. someone who won model U.N. in highscool, was on their collegestudent boards or student president, has a law degree? Yes. Being old doesn't make you good at something.
I don’t believe his mother worked at IBM but she was on a lot of corporate boards and was on the board of United Way where John Opel the then CEO of IBM was also serving as a board member.
Now it’s a distinction without a difference as it still shows how not self made he was, but I’m a pedant.
He wrote Altair Basic, which is more than just repackaging. I can only assume he tended towards more business related tasks after that though.
They're trying to gift themselves the USIP building aswell
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
This reminds me of an ad i saw for a 25 year old life coach.
28? That could very well be the most senior member of DOGE. Everyone older than that knows better.
What's the problem with his age? It's about time we start to replace the fucking boomers in government.
There's a lot of problems with Doge, but age isn't one of them.
There's a decade or five in between "barely postgraduate" and "belongs in an assisted living facility."
I want people in charge of significant government functions to have significant lived knowledge and experience in the field.
Because diplomacy requires experience, that's why
Agreed that the government needs younger people, but there's a reason why the minimum age for president in the US is 36.
The max age should be 41.
The maximum age for the President, or someone in the Senate/Congress should be based on a percentage of the average livespan of everyone in the country.
It's adaptive and also incentivizes them to make choices which will benefit everyone's health, rather than the health of the elite.