Elon Musk's first order of business in Trump administration: Kill remote work
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Elon Musk is a strange bird that many idolize and consider him super smart, but he is not. Of course, being the most terrible speaker and dancer is the least of his issues! It's funny how he suddenly became a Republicans supporter when he started Tesla with policies pushed by the Democrats and who claims to be a conservative and someone vocally against migrants but meanwhile works on replacing Americans with clumsy and super expensive robots. I'm also not sure how conservatives like his Neuralink company, and Starlink, which is beeming us constantly without any place to hide.
You do realize that for at least the past year, the only reason the employment reports have had a positive figure is because the government is hiring more people than the private sector is laying off? That's unsustainable.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/204535/number-of-governm...
Plus, how much of stuff it used to do internally 40 years ago are now done through subcontractors and delegated to private companies? Meaning even that number is now doing less than 1980?
I think it was just another campaign tactic, theater for the masses and the reality is very different. It's programs that cost the American people the most so if Elon and Vivek want to save money, they will need to look at programs like SS, Veterans benefits, Medicare, Education, etc.
That would cut 4,400 employees -- most of whom are tasked with administering funds like Pell Grants. Those funds are mostly matters of law, so I'm not sure if the goal is to just not actually follow that law, or what.
If you did indeed stop following that law, you could save a goodly chunk of money -- over $200 billion. But the actual employees are only a tiny fraction of that cost, so firing the entire staff would save far, far less (perhaps half a billion.)