Elon’s report card

[jon-nyc]

And many of his paltry cuts weren’t implemented?

[taiwan_girl]

I think his time at DOGE is like the story of the Greece boy who flew too close to the sun.

[jon-nyc]

The economist had a fabulous headline:

“DOGE bites man.”

[jon-nyc]

[Axtremus]

Has anyone done a retrospective on how many ex-Twitter employees got hired back into X?

[jon-nyc]

Surely not as no outsider would have access to the info. And I doubt it was more than a handful.

[Horace]

Meanwhile, we can discard in retrospect all of the cynical tribalism when DOGE first started that it was a bad faith endeavor. I always believed it was a good faith endeavor that was not likely to be productive, and that’s about how it’s turned out.

I suppose there are still plenty of cynics who think Elon cares about nothing related to actual government efficiency and austerity, but I think current evidence is piled against them.

[jon-nyc]

Michael Munger put it best, referencing Tyler Cowen:

DOGE was terrific, if unintentional, test of @tylercowen's "state capacity libertarianism."

link

1. Ask if government should be doing this.
2. If answer=YES, then ensure work is fully staffed, professional and well-compensated.

Across the board cuts=dumb

[jon-nyc]

[89th]

Hahaha

[jon-nyc]

You predicted this but I couldn’t find where.