Marc J. Dunkelman
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So the question for Elon Musk as the CEO is do I โ
Want to have a larger slice of a smaller pie or a smaller slice of a larger pie?
That's a hard decision.
And whatever he chooses, he's going to be pissing off some portion of his company, of his employees.
But it's a hard decision.
He could have come into Doge.
and said, you know, I understand what this is like.
I'm the CEO.
I want to make it so when you are the head of NOAA, the National Oceanic Administration, the bureaucracy that is regulating
offshore wind, animals, right, right, right.
And you are faced with a dilemma, right?
Where you have some, some burden where you, some people want to put offshore wind and some people are worried about the animals that are going to be interfered with.
that you have more discretion to choose more expeditiously between these choices, understanding that there are costs, that there are going to be some animals or some flora or fauna.
I don't know what that... There are trade-offs in every policy.
There are trade-offs, that you can make that choice more expeditiously.
That would have been a useful thing for Doge to have done.
Instead, what...
we know Elon did is that he took the approach in Doge that he took when he took over Twitter, just, just fire a bunch of people less, less, less useful in the, but, but, but like there is like, there is like, that's something for us as progressives to think about.
Are there ways that as we are thinking about the next time we are in office, that we can write legislation in ways that,