• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Elon doesn’t like it when things are slow and difficult, so maybe he’ll get bored and find something else to amuse his sadistic little mind.

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    5 months ago

    It takes a truly bureaucratic mind—someone with a sensibility for relentless, daily tedium—to dismantle bureaucracy.

    Democracy, by contrast, is far easier to unravel than state bureaucracy. Bureaucratic systems often outlast governments, as seen with the colonial administrations in Africa and South Asia. Bureaucracy is designed to be “portable” across different regimes and transfers of power.

    Elon is likely facing a long and tiresome road ahead—one he’ll almost certainly abandon in some spectacularly embarrassing fashion within two months. Bureaucracy endures because it’s so deeply embedded in the everyday, utterly quotidian and entwined with, like, everything.

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      5 months ago

      You know when you put it like that, I can see just a glimpse of why Hermes (futurama) likes it so much. I hope you are right and that beurocracy spares us the worst of his bullshit

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    5 months ago

    Is the first hurdle that this new agency doesn’t exist at all, and that he has zero authority at the moment?

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      5 months ago

      It never will. Federal agencies are created by acts of Congress. And we already have the Government Accountability Office for audits.