"What is his level of responsibility? What is a fair moral comparison? What consequences should a liberal society impose—if any—on someone like him?"
One Lancet study estimates USAID's destruction by DOGE will cost 14 million lives. It also decimated an entire ecosystem of organizations & careers.
What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?
Does culpability begin and end with this one person, or does it extend to the leadership above him who set it all in motion?
From the Bloomberg piece: One condition of Farritor’s $100k fellowship (funded by Peter Thiel) and SpaceX internship was that he drop out of college. So he was not an engineer. He was a bright kid that Thiel, Musk &c turned into their creature.
Certainly not this.
Tesla is awarding CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares of restricted stock valued at approximately $29 billion, just six months after a judge ordered the company to revoke his massive pay package.
I doubt that Luke Farritor is a genius more than a dilettante. He is a product of extreme privilege. Yet the right-wing/libertarian incubator/community that lavished resources on Farritor gave him no empathy and little humanity. And he lacks the wisdom to understand that major deficiency in him.
