Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“It’s clear that Elon Musk hopes to run his Twitter playbook on the U.S. government. That is: launch an aggressive plan to reduce headcount, not just to reduce costs but also to shed unproductive employees who will cling to old ways of doing things. Once the legacy employees are gone, you rebuild the organization around the hard core who survived the purges. This worked surprisingly well at what’s now X. … The Trump administration is about to discover why reforming the government is so different from — and so much harder than — reforming the private sector.” (01/30/25)