Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“People have been saying ‘We need to run government like a business!’ — and trying to do so — for 200 years. The project always fails. The question isn’t whether it is going to fail again this time around, with the Silicon Valley tech mafia leading the way — the question is whether Elon Musk is smart enough to understand why it is going to fail. OpenAI, the firm that owns ChatGPT, reportedly loses about $150 … a second. Serious people value the firm at $300 billion. … The federal government currently spends a little more than $200,000 a second. And the big idea from Donald Trump and Elon Musk is to lower that number by bringing in the sort of people who are currently overseeing that $150/second loss at OpenAI.” (01/31/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/tech-bros-musk-altman-bezos-openai-government-debt/