It is a fallacy to assume you can easily rebuild what you've destroyed, especially if the destroyers are still around and fully intending to destroy it again.
I never said it would be easy. I admit it might not even be possible. Exceptional damage and harm might occur, to both institutions and the citizenry, before we can right the ship. We are in an objectively terrible situation. I’m advocating for a mental model where we don’t give up, and we are always prepared to exert maximum force against leverage when the opportunity presents itself.
To resign one’s self that the situation is entirely futile is not only unproductive, but intellectually boring. Are we not in search of interesting problems to solve for?
The real destruction will no doubt be in the courts.
Vivek and Elonsky will push the boundaries as far as they can, and Trump will not enforce anything.
Someone else will sue, and maybe somewhere someone will have standing. It will start to get interesting when SCOTUS has to face the monster they've created.
"...Mr. Trump can implement any number of “rules governing the competitive service” that would curtail administrative overgrowth, from large-scale firings to relocation of federal agencies out of the Washington area. Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home."
To everyone voting it was clear, that Elon would get this role. So he was part of the elected package. Probably, that was also a deciding factor for many voters.
Aren’t “rules and regulations” written by people under direction of a president, such that it is effectively the president’s work? Do they just stand on their own with no legal backing? Or do they want the president to be the one actually writing them all? Or is it his signature they want?
Undoing them isn’t just the same as undoing previous presidents’ work?
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 55.8 ms ] threadTo resign one’s self that the situation is entirely futile is not only unproductive, but intellectually boring. Are we not in search of interesting problems to solve for?
Vivek and Elonsky will push the boundaries as far as they can, and Trump will not enforce anything.
Someone else will sue, and maybe somewhere someone will have standing. It will start to get interesting when SCOTUS has to face the monster they've created.
Obviously, you need to destroy the right things...
Psychopaths at work here
None of these plans seem to enrich Elon more than anyone one else. He's working on it for free.
Honestly, I think this is more like when a $300k SWE takes a week off to fix a bug in their favorite open source project.
1. Relaxing Regulation for autonomous driving
2. Relaxing Regulation for rocket launches so he can get to Mars while he's still living.
3. Contracts for SpaceX wrt to space exploration and Starlink usage
Underfund everything in the government by cutting taxes, then argue that the system is obviously broken. Now offload that work to the private sector.
Who will pick up the work in the private industry? Probably the cronies of these guys. That's how it always works.
The rationale is that "everything" in the government is less efficient and more expensive than the private sector.
The irony of these two guys starting off their piece about how they plan to reshape the government with this...
Did you read the next sentence or did you accidentally omit it from your excerpt? It says: "That isn’t how America functions today."
Then, "Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem."
Undoing them isn’t just the same as undoing previous presidents’ work?