Musk's new job doesn't have any power to do anything. He can lobby Trump, the same power he already had as a rich man who gave campaign contributions. Musk may be dangerous to the US government, but it's not because he was given a fake title.
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reminder that musk’s successful companies have an entire team dedicated “managing” musk to have as little input into the actual business as possible.
Gwynne Shotwell pulling us into the future of spaceflight despite Musk.
I still can't get past the government efficiency department being chaired by two people.
It's also a redundant department. There is already the Government Accountability Office, which literally does the same job (but probably actually does it efficiently).
Let's hope that the new department is just musk's kids table, so the adults in the real department can work with less interruption
It's not even an official government department, it's something like an advisory council. So, something like that, yes
Also, there are two efficiency departments?
Not very efficient?
move fast, break things
*move fast, break spines (oops)
… and let someone else clean up the mess
Democrats. They always have to fix the mess of the Republican shit-gibbons, and then get blamed when they don't fix it fast enough. Or if doing it while being Blah. The fear of someone doing it while having a va-jay-jay is one so great that no women can get into office.
The ceo motto.
"We're going to have an innovation sprint, but in the government! What could go wrong?"
Yeah. Companies with seagull managers probably manage to survive under dopey mantras like move fast and break things - or not - but it's only a company.
Seagull managers at the level of government - breaking things has a whole new meaning.