Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
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Re: Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
#2You don't get to be one of the largest corporations in the world without co-opting the government in your favor. This is exactly what ancaps are missing.
Re: Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
#3Is "Google employee leaves Google and gets job in Executive Branch" a "revolving door"? Even when the job is technical not policy?
Re: Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
#4You don't get to be one of the largest corporations in the world without co-opting the government in your favor. This is exactly what ancaps are missing.
"If you want to get involved in business, you should get involved in politics."
- Senator Orin Hatch; Chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee
https://books.google.com/books?id=WYIlAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87&lpg=P...
Re: Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
#5Is it so hard to believe that one of the biggest tech companies in the country and the government wouldn't both respect success in the other's organizations?
Re: Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
#6I would love to see numbers for other companies. I would be surprised if large defense contractors like Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin didn't have way more than 250.
Also ... government has been notoriously bad about grokking software. They just couldn't manage large projects effectively at all, and they were completely getting fleeced by their usual contractors (witness the initial launch of healthcare.gov). So it's good that they're getting competent people to be in charge of things now, which I suppose naturally means they'd be getting people from the top tech companies in the world.
Re: Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
#7You don't get to be one of the largest corporations in the world without co-opting the government in your favor. This is exactly what ancaps are missing.
Ancaps really? I'm sure Google is co-opting with the government in some sense, but you obviously have to at that scale, but what kind of tin foil hat do you need to start believing ancaps are missing.
Re: Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
#8...just like thousands of people on every industry does: https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=I
If you didn't want this to happen perhaps you should make it illegal?
Re: Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
#9I would love to see numbers for other companies. I would be surprised if large defense contractors like Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin didn't have way more than 250. Also ... government has been notoriously bad about grokking software. They just couldn't manage large projects effectively at all, and they were completely getting fleeced by their usual contractors (witness the initial launch of healthcare.gov). S…
A lot of info at: https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=I
Re: Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration
#10Is "Google employee leaves Google and gets job in Executive Branch" a "revolving door"? Even when the job is technical not policy?
Most of the examples in the article are non-technical. High level advisory roles for policy advise.