To answer a question that has come up recently from government workers shocked by the DOGE exploits of a 19-year-old young man who is known as “Big Balls,” this debate is already too late to have. The wasteful practices of the federal government and all the massive amounts of terminations that need to be made to make government much smaller and to push those workers into the growing private sector employment will not be fought in the courts, as many hope. It will be fought in public relations. For instance, the poor-performing government workers at USAID will not be able to hide behind polite society and continue to underperform for the American taxpayer without exposure any longer. I’ve been warning about this day for decades, and here it is. Everyone was told, and they chose not to listen. So, don’t be surprised when some wiz kid that Elon Musk hired right out of high school can come in and eliminate many government jobs with the push of a button on a laptop. Nobody in the world is better at finding overachieving engagement from employees than Elon Musk right now; he has been very successful at finding those types of people at Tesla, SpaceX, and just about everything else he has touched. And, of course, we see the same practices from people like this: Edward Coristine, the young man who has the world melting down as he calls himself “Big Balls.” Well, it takes a lot of guts to step into a very corrosive work culture with the power of government behind it and tell them all that they are worthless and that they need to go. They have been underperforming, and in the case of USAID, the Pentagon, and many other places that DOGE will be analyzing for President Trump, if you want to be great as a nation or at anything, you can’t accept underperformance. There must be standards that define winning, and employees must meet or exceed those standards. But coming up short was never going to be acceptable.
I’m not surprised that Musk has hired many bright-eyed young people to perform these analysis jobs, such as in the case of Edward Coristine. I know many young people like this “Big Balls” kid. They remind me of the old hot rod culture we used to have in America, where kids coming of age to drive could get their hands on an old car and hot rod it up so they could race on the weekends. That kind of car culture has been taken away from kids so they have turned to computer coding. Getting computers to do things better and faster than stock options right out of the store is what many kids like Big Balls spend all their time thinking about. Elon Musk has given those kinds of kids homes in his companies. They can take their passion and put it to good use right out of high school. So, they end up with a pure view of the world that makes things easy to see. Edward Coristine has an advantage as a young person who has not yet learned to fail. Many people who have failed a lot in life seek a government job to hide those failures even from themselves, and they hope all their lives that nobody notices. So, government employment has become a joke over time, and nobody feels confident in criticizing it because the power of the government might crush them for doing so. I’ve been through all that myself, where I have been very critical of the government and have seen its wrath firsthand. Not that it did them any good. But I can see why Musk has people like Big Balls on his team. It takes a person who has not lived long enough to accept failure sometimes and the ambition to change the world without learning to hold back so as not to hurt other people’s feelings to walk into a roomful of government employees and tell them they are all worthless and could be removed immediately and all their jobs could be done in the corner of the room with one guy and a second-hand laptop. It takes Big Balls to be that honest.
I have received a lot of hate mail these last few weeks, much more than usual, which is usually quite a lot. But the hate comes in the form of an almost mirror mirror on the wall complex where they are trying to convince themselves of their point more than me. They think government jobs are protected and the courts will protect them from the realities of performance measures, a standard labor union fantasy. Through mass collectivism, they can be insulated from the rigors of reality. But of course, I say to them, generally politely, that these fights won’t be conducted in the corrupt courts, but in the realm of public opinion. The next time we get to a government shutdown, for instance, and Congress has to vote for more appropriations, how are they going to do that when it is a PR nightmare now that people know how useless a lot of these government workers are? They aren’t worth the money wasted on them, and the fear of continued services lost because those employees aren’t there will be removed.
The low-engagement people will lose whenever you have a high-engagement culture fighting against a low-engagement culture. You can’t fight against people who work 7 days a week, 24 hours a day because they love their job with people who barely work 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, even if they still report to the office, which many of them have been working from home. Those low-engagement people will get slaughtered in the process, which DOGE brings to the table. Not just in the one young man, Big Balls, but in many like him. And behind him is a vast army of like-minded people who don’t want some stuffy adult government worker culture holding back their future from them. They have more than a few reasons to be angry about how they approach their job of performance revolution. If people are going to be in a government job, we always expect performance. Not to hide behind some social constructs like a worthless college degree in basket weaving so that they could get into one of these government union jobs and sit on their butts for the next thirty years until they retire with a ridiculous benefits package for essentially doing nothing that whole time. Those days are over and have been for many years. But it’s catching up now because it took people like Big Balls to expose how useless those government workers were. They need to be removed from that comfortable, expensive position and put into the private sector, where they must compete for a job every day. And if they fail there, it is because in competition, they didn’t make the team. If you want a great country and economy, you have to make it so that the people doing the work are the best. And those who don’t work so hard are not just sitting around milking the system from the taxpayers who worked so hard to provide the funds. Regarding Big Balls and the kind of people Elon Musk typically surrounds himself with, they are not losers who have learned from society to lose. They are rebelling against that premise, which I think is fantastic. This is why I have been a fan of Musk for a long time. And I love what he is doing with DOGE. We don’t want losers doing these government jobs; we want winners. And the best way to do that is to put people in place to analyze these jobs who have not yet learned to lose. Big Balls has yet to learn how to lose, much to his credit. And we need in the world a lot more people like him.
Rich Hoffman
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