Look, sometimes you make mistakes. Maybe you send an email to the wrong person. Maybe you accidentally buy the wrong kind of pasta sauce at the grocery store. Maybe you accidentally dismantle critical global health infrastructure. These things happen! At least, that’s what Elon Musk wants us to believe.
At yesterday’s first official Musk/Trump administration cabinet meeting, Elon decided to share a cute little anecdote about his DOGE team’s approach to governing. Just a fun little story about how they “accidentally canceled” Ebola prevention efforts. What a knee slapper!
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The only problem is that almost everything here is nonsense… well, except for the part about canceling the program on Ebola prevention. Musk absolutely did that. And some other terrible stuff as well. But the fixing the mistake part? That doesn’t appear to have actually happened. Oopsie!
This is why “move fast and break things” is the worst possible motto
It’s fine if you’re a new startup who doesn’t have any customers yet. It’s terrible if people depend on you for their very lives.
Musk is a child who thinks the world is his very own startup and can’t understand that fucking up here is effectively murder.
Yeah let’s just break 250+ years of laws, treaties, allies, infrastructure, social progress, public works, mail…seriously this guy…
It’s fine when you’re building a website. Not when you’re doing anything important like building cars, rockets or running the government.
Therein lies the larger indictment of the philosophy. It’s only fine when you’re not doing anything important. If your website is important, it’s also not fine to break it.
Yeah, definitely. It’s a great mantra when you’re in startup mode and just want to validate a market or impress venture capitalists or whatever. But then when you start having customers and people relying on you, you need to start doing proper engineering.
It’s definitely not something you should do when lives are at stake.
Unless you’re the Juggernaut from X-Men
When he said, “I think we all want to prevent Ebola,” I was trying to will the camera to pan and zoom in to RFKs stupid face, but alas, my willpower was not strong enough.
Well that depends. Is Elon the one getting ebola?
Elon is Ebola, does that count?
Billionaires with bunkers, ignoring climate change, destroying disease defence, disabling farmers economically, ceasing food aid, sowing discord and strife, gathering the means to control the media and avenues of counter organisation.
It should be obvious. They think they’re super smart. They want lots of people to die so they get to claim the earth.
You do if you’re a sociopath.
He said “very briefly” which implies its back, but without clarification we’ll never know. In all actuality though, we’ll probably never know about a lot of things in the next 4 and beyond.
When I make a misstake at work, my employer lost a few manhours, when Elon makes a misstake at work, he destroys the US Ebola defence.
Elon, since I know you are reading this, risking a new global pandemic is not efficient, try to make the type of misstakes that has a similar impact as mine do, just seems more efficient that way.
