What Elon Musk's DOGE experience reveals about the collision between different types of expertise—and why every industry is about to learn the same lesson
I am more cynical. I think this group thinks blitz-scaling is the solution to everything and do not know or do not care to know that the trade-offs are harming people, in part because the function of government in fundamentally different from inventing a service or maximizing shareholder profit.
In other words, our government requires civic character, and these people don’t have it. They view themselves as “great men” special characters in a Civilization game who can only contribute some multiplicative special bonus.
I am more cynical. I think this group thinks blitz-scaling is the solution to everything and do not know or do not care to know that the trade-offs are harming people, in part because the function of government in fundamentally different from inventing a service or maximizing shareholder profit.
In other words, our government requires civic character, and these people don’t have it. They view themselves as “great men” special characters in a Civilization game who can only contribute some multiplicative special bonus.