Some Follow Up Questions For Elon Musk, After He Admits He Gets Stuff Wrong Sometimes
Some Follow Up Questions For Elon Musk, After He Admits He Gets Stuff Wrong Sometimes
Here’s a story about being wrong. Not just regular wrong — we’re all wrong sometimes! — but spectacularly, publicly, “I’m going to double down again and again and again on t…
He's not "wrong" - he's a psychopath. He doesn't "fail" to find out the truth - he simply doesn't care, because his own immediate inclinations and desires are all that matter to him.
This is NOT a condemnation of USAID, more of a contradiction: isn’t it crazy our government is giving free healthcare to foreign refugees in foreign countries and not its own citizens?
Ideally, we should do both.
As with a lot of things, the federal government isn't a big monolithic robot. Think of it like a vast tribe of weasels. Sometimes, they'll work together as if by instinct, and they can do great things for either good or evil. Sometimes they just hang around biting on each other. A lot of the time, some of the far-flung parts of it are working on totally different activities than the core wants or is aware of. It is animate, it just kind of does what it wants to do. Most governments are like that to at least some extent, and the American one is far more like that even than the norm.
I think part of the issue is that fixing American health care involves interfering with some of the boss weasels' mealtimes, and so of course the whole system is going to get very upset and savage you if you try to do anything to change it. Fixing health care for some refugees in some particular location costs a miniscule amount of money and effort, by comparison, and it doesn't do anything to un-enrich anybody who's currently being showered with riches, so it can proceed unimpeded.
Good point.