I am not going to look for the information again, but this list was debunked many times in my news feed.
i.e. doge says they saved some insane amount of money for some program, but most importantly, for many cases:
- most of the money have been paid already, so almost nothing is saved (imagine 5 year program for 10B, but 4 years have passed, 8B has been paid and now it will not be finished);
- program brings more business than it costs;
- or both;
It grinds my gears when musk, trump and the like bring their “run government as a business” attitude. Government is a “meta-business”.
It takes care of things that businesses won’t. Roads, trains, growing and educating new generation of workers and businessmen, army, etc.
thiel’s technofascist libertarian dystopian city states will crumble from lack of infrastructure or if not - more powerful states (China?) will eat them up one by one.
The Hubris is so thick with this one. They can’t bullshit China away.