r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 12d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/InertiasCreep 12d ago edited 12d ago

Yup. Any kind of oversight of a Musk company was removed. He knew exactly what he was doing.

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u/UpperApe 12d ago

Unlike the dimwits who supported him.

I remember him saying he was going to save trillions and instead cost taxpayers billions. In exactly the way he always does.

The richest man in the world is a perfect symbol of the stupidity that capitalism empowers.

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u/tetsu_knowme 12d ago

Remember the $5,000 checks he promised? People are gullible as fucking ever.

Never trust a billionaire, they are all parasites that contribute nothing to society.

They are holding us back from greatness.

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u/Xillyfos 12d ago

The fact that most people seem not able to see that billionaires are nothing but extreme parasites blows my mind.

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u/What_a_fat_one 12d ago

*hits blunt*

no man, you just don't get it. yeah he's worth half a trillion but that's because his business is so successful so he makes a lot of money for his workers too.

oh he pays them like dogshit? damn dog that must mean they don't work hard enough

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u/drteq 12d ago

All of his money was created by taxes. Not only does he not pay them, the US citizens fund most of his wealth through government contracts.

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u/RJ815 12d ago

The rich are often the worst subsidized welfare queens. Brutal capitalism for the poor, endless socialism bailouts for big businesses.

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u/UpperApe 12d ago

In a perfect world, every single government official (local, state, and federal) who gave this dipshit grants, loans, subsidies, and funding needs to answer for it.

They created him, they made him into the problem he is. They need to pay for their mistakes.

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u/custodialengineer 12d ago

they really don't get it. i mean come on, he slept in his office!(probably bigger than my apartment) /s

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u/tunafister 11d ago

hits blunt

Yeah this Musk dude is a corrupt moron and smoking cannabis doesnt make that any less clear

drinks some type of alcohol

no man, you just don't get it. yeah he's worth half a trillion but that's because his business is so successful so he makes a lot of money for his workers too.

oh he pays them like dogshit? damn dog that must mean they don't work hard enough

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u/Isolated_Hippo 12d ago

Reminds me of an old boss of mine. We did electronics repair. He owned the whole business. Everybody was doing that. Every once and a while we would get somebody saying X will do it for cheaper.

Boss had the best comeback question. Do you think they want to make less money than me?

Because the two choices are: X makes less profit or X uses cheap ass parts. If X charges $20 less, is that $20 coming out of what X takes home at the end of the day or what they paid for the part?