Elon Musk

They killed it, though, right?

No, unfortunately.

But they were trying to kill it.

It has been substantially reduced.

Okay.

Well, I mean, I'm a small government guy, so...

When the country was created, we just had the Department of State, Department of War, and sort of the Department of Justice.

We had an Attorney General and Treasury Department.

I don't know why you need more than that.

Well, I mean, here it's like a question.

It's a sort of philosophical question of how much government do you think there should be?

Right.

In my opinion, there should be the least amount of government.

Yeah, paying people to do nothing doesn't make sense.

There's a great story about Milton Friedman, who is awesome.

Generally, whatever Milton Friedman said is people should do that thing.

I'm not sure if it's apocryphal or not, but someone complained to him.

He observed, I think, people that were digging ditches with shovels.

And he said, well, allegedly, Freeman said, well, I think you should use excavating equipment instead of shovels, and you could get it done with far fewer people.

And then someone said, but then we're going to lose a lot of jobs.