DOGE's Fatal Flaw

DOGE's founder, Elon Musk, has achieved success in a number of businesses, but success in business does not guarantee success in other fields. To quote one of his favorite authors, Robert A. Heinlein: "Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so." (Heinlein, 1995). Elon Musk should be more self-aware.

Elon Musk, and the minions he hires, appear to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect:  The Dunning-Kruger effect "is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them from accurately assessing their own skills." (Psychology Today, n.d.). Essentially, fools are blind to their own foolishness. Elon Musk is a fool, and the American people are paying the price for his foolishness.

“If you think your IQ is 160 but it’s 150, you’re a disaster.  It’s much better to have a 130 IQ and think it’s 120.”—Charlie Munger (Holodny, 2016)