Ask Lemmygrad

those orgs are essentially the sinecure of the US institutional elite, where their spawnlings that are too incompetent even for some Wall Street board seat or STEM lord Silicon Valley company management are fobbed off to.

These “non-partisan” NGO careerist positions were their golden parachute

This is like saying U.S. domestic media jobs are just golden parachute make-work for elite failsons. Some jobs in that industry fit the bill, but the industry serves a real purpose outside of that and a ton of its workers don't fit into the "elite failson golden parachute" box.

What's happening is (1) true believers in "cut everything but the military" are in power, (2) they're trying more blanket cuts than we've seen before because they're seeing what they can get away with and they don't know enough to do it more selectively, and (3) they don't care if it causes problems because it won't cause any meaningful problems for them.