Reuters’s Jeff Mason: “Your detractors, Mr. Musk, who— including a lot of Democrats…say that you’re orchestrating a hostile takeover of government and doing it in a non-transparent way. What’s your response to that criticism?”
Elon Musk: “Well, first of all, you couldn’t ask for a stronger mandate from the public. The public voted. You know, we have a majority of the public vote voting for President Trump. We won the House. We won the Senate. The people voted for major government reform. There should be no doubt about that. That was on the campaign. The President spoke about that at every rally. The people voted for— for major government reform and that’s what the people are going to get.
They’re going to get what they voted for. And a lot of times, you know, the people don’t get what they voted for. But in this presidency, they are going to get what they voted for. And that’s what democracy is all about.”
Elon Musk: “we are trying to sort of right size the federal bureaucracy, just make sure that there’s — obviously needs — there needs to be a lot of people working for the federal government, but not as many as currently. So we’re saying, well, okay, well, let’s if people can retire, you know, with full benefits, –benefits and everything, that that would be good. They can retire, get their retirement payments and everything and then we were told, this is actually, I think, a great anecdote because we were told no, the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000. We’re like, well, why? Why is that? Well, because all the — all the retirement paperwork is manual on paper. It’s manually calculated. They’re written down on a piece of paper. Then it goes down a mine and we’re like, what do you mean a mine? Like, yeah, there’s a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork that — and you look at a picture of this mine, we’ll post some pictures afterwards. this mine looks like something out of the 50s because it was started in 1955, so it looks a time warp. And then the speed — then the limiting factor is the speed at which the mineshaft elevator can move, determines how many people can retire from the federal — federal government and the elevator breaks down sometimes and then you can’t — nobody can retire. Doesn’t that sound crazy? There’s like a thousand people that work on this. So, I think if we can take those people and say, like, you know what, instead of working in a mine shaft and carrying manila envelopes to, you know, boxes in a mine shaft, you could do practically anything else and you would add to the goods and services of the United States in a more useful way. So anyway, so I think, you know, that’s an example — like at a high level, if you say like, how do we increase prosperity is we get people to do to shift from roles that are low to negative productivity to high productivity roles. And so, you increase the total output of goods and services, which means that there’s a higher standard of living available for everyone. That’s the actual goal.”
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