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‘Compensation is Zero’ in the DOGE Working Group

It isn’t a real federal department anyway

4 min readNov 16, 2024

a few dogecoins, appearing as gold coins with a shiba inu imprinted image — Dogecoin by KNFind from Pixabay

A couple days ago, having been promised a high position in the Trump administration, Elon Musk said he wanted people to “work” for him. Or to work for the federal government — it’s not clear. He stated on X what he was seeking.

Wanted: “Super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.”

Procedure: “DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek [Ramaswamy] will review the top 1% of applicants.”

Salary: “Zero. What a great deal! 😂”

As the Guardian reported it:

In a separate post, Musk chimed in on the callout, saying: ‘Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero.’ ‘What a great deal!’ Musk, the richest man in the world, wrote with a laughing emoji. He has promised to reduce federal bureaucracy by a third and cut $2tn from US government spending, an endeavor he said ‘necessarily involves some temporary hardship’. — The Guardian, Nov 14

Musk personally has over $300 billion, making him the richest man in the world.

Elon Musk $303.7B. Larry Ellison $224.8B. Jeff Bezos $219.4B. Mark Zuckerberg $191.7B. — Forbes list of wealthiest people

I’m told the U.S. government has money too and is in the practice of paying the people who work for it.

This is corruption, not only in the general sense that Musk hasn’t divested himself of…

‘Compensation is Zero’ in the DOGE Working Group

It isn’t a real federal department anyway

Written by Tucker Lieberman

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