San Francisco, United States:
As Elon Musk and his assistants take control of the US Treasury Payment System, the drastic employment and other shaking cuts that instituted when buying Twitter can offer a preview of what government workers can expect. Musk, the richest person in the world, is the leader of federal cost reduction efforts of President Donald Trump under the so -called Government Efficiency Department (Doge).
The closely saved payments system handles the flow of money from the United States government, including $ 6 billion per year for Social Security, Medicare, federal wages and other critical payments.
Ryan Mac, co -author of the book recently released “Character limit: how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter,” what the participation of the tycoon could mean for mass federal agencies.
What did Twitter Musk do?
Elon Musk saw Twitter as a swollen company that was being poorly managed. It was designed as a large cost cutter. He has done this for years in Tesla and Spacex. That is the same principle as you requested after buying Twitter.
Now, we are seeing the impacts of that. More than 80 percent of the company has been fired or fired. The costs have been severely reduced, in turn, that has also reduced income: that side of the business has been beaten. He is taking those same tactics to the United States government.
Is musk stripping the funds?
In the same way that Musk has approached the budgets on Twitter, he is doing the same with any federal agency in which he is interested. They take a contract or an expense to zero, then the employee who supervises is to argue why it is necessary.
They re -assemble the budget depending on that and, hopefully, they have been able to find some efficiencies or things that could have been reduced. That is something we saw on Twitter that is now being deployed in the federal government.
We are seeing the same names of characters, people like Steve Davis, who is the man on Elon’s right who arrived on Twitter to reduce costs. Now it is part of the Dogs effort with the federal government.
Will engineers govern?
We will begin to see a great dependence on engineers. Elon is promoted by this idea that engineers should be decision makers; All others should help them build or get out of their way. That is why you are beginning to see these young engineers come to these agencies supervising things.
I also hope to see exhaustion and people who initially register to work with him in Dege begin to fall on the way. That is a natural wear that you get working with someone as intense as him. People no longer see face to face or get tired of the rhythm and leave or say goodbye.
Is the Musk government illegal?
Elon’s opinion about the laws is that they are something that can be challenged. He has this way of thinking called ‘Go to the first principles’. If you tell him that he can’t do something, he will ask why.
I think you are starting to see a small change in your strategy. The ‘bifurcation on the way’ email is similar to an email that he sent on Twitter after his acquisition. On Twitter, Elon asked workers who wanted to stay for a hard central devotion to their work. With the federal government, you must choose to resign. He has learned from his past mistake.
Did the cuts break Twitter?
There were some interruptions, and the accident in X when Ron Desantis announced that his career for president was quite shameful. X has remained online for the most part, and Elon sees it as a great victory. We can talk about the crater of income in X, but the site has been online, and it will take it as a victory.
But, the federal government is not something that can simply cut Willy Nilly and put things back in place if it doesn’t work. People will hurt themselves. What happens when Social Security cuts or Medicar will too far? Any federal payment is cut, reensamblating that it is not as simple as lighting a server again or again hiring the person who has just fired.
He has not accumulated these federal bureaucracies. Now he is entering and trying to fly the plane and change the engine halfway.
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