• NameTaken@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    A better question would be do you have any examples of him actually creating efficiencies? I don’t mean this in a condescending way but he did do a great job with Tesla but basically no where else. Every time he goes out of his wheelhouse it seems to end in disaster? Honestly I don’t follow him but it’s impossible not to hear about him. So can you elaborate on what his successes were and how’d that translate into making the government more efficient?

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      5 hours ago

      As I said in other comment, he lowered Twitter expanses without actually lowering the quality of service quality (I don’t know if he lowered moderation for costs or personal control) .

      I would preferred he do the costs minimizing measures more slowly, but I don’t think anyone can criticize the efficiency there.

      And all of that while not knowing anything about how social media companies work or having previous experience.

      I am saying all this as a person who use Mastodon and BlueSky instead of Twitter.

      Most people who left Twitter left it because of Elon ego rather than the way he manages the company internally.

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        5 hours ago

        I think a lot of people would disagree with you about X. Objectively he bought the company for $44B and now it’s worth $9B that’s a huge loss. Most people attribute the decline to his “efficiency” measures. Basically losing all the good talent in his company causing a significant decline in users ( because of quality of service). His running of Twitter I think would be a better example of a failure.

        That aside hypothetically even if X was doing well - How would the strategy / approach he used in a public company be good for government. These are two very different places?