Elon Musk just asked the question every wealthy member of Congress hopes nobody ever asks out loud.
$200,000 salary. $20 million net worth. Nobody has ever had to account for that gap.
Musk: “How’d they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year? Nobody can explain that.”
Not one committee. Not one hearing. Not once.
Here’s why. The people vote. The bureaucracy decides.
Musk: “We really have here rule of the bureaucracy as opposed to rule of the people.”
And bureaucracy protects itself. The money leaves the Treasury and lands in a nonprofit built the year before.
Musk: “If you have a government-funded nongovernmental organization, you’re simply a government-funded organization.”
Then it crosses a border. It moves through NGOs, other countries, other currencies.
Musk: “NGOs are a way to do things that would be illegal if they were the government, but are somehow made legal if it’s sent to a so-called nonprofit.”
A human tracing that chain gives up around the hundredth transfer.
A machine doesn’t stop at one hundred. Or one hundred thousand.
The Pentagon has failed every financial audit since 2018. Eight years straight. The budget went up anyway. Bureaucracy doesn’t get punished. It gets funded again.
Musk: “Normally, the bureaucracy eats revolutions for breakfast. This is the first time the revolution might actually succeed.”
Not because Washington got honest.
Because something showed up that doesn’t get tired, doesn’t get paid off, and doesn’t stop counting.
Complexity was never a hiding place. It just hadn’t been read yet.
this is very old news, like years old
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Goldman Delta-1 head Rich Privorotsky:
"Lots of underperformance in hyperscalers yday. Everyone still appears convinced they must keep spending simply to remain competitive, while token cost compression/advent of neoclouds puts pricing pressure on core business. If token prices continue to compress alongside falling compute costs, the benefits may accrue to users faster than providers. Ironically, the first hyperscaler to signal that it can slow the pace of spending will likely see its share price rewarded. If that happens, others will take notice. That is the reflexivity that ultimately stalls the capex cycle… not a lack of demand, but investors deciding that incremental returns on the next dollar of spend are no longer attractive. Watch hyperscalers share price as leading indicator."
A majority Muslim city council in Michigan voted to permanently ban the LGBTQ Pride Flag on public property.
White liberal women who welcomed refugees from Islamic countries are now wondering what happened.
Consequences of suicidal empathy coming to a leftist town near you.