Musk Vs Trump is a warning story for Silicon Valley

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The writer is a Silicon Valley investor for a long time, a former board member and a PayPal and an investor in Spacex

One man approaches the government like the company. The other considers the government his company. Anyone working in the silicon valley knows anything he chooses. For results, modern management outperforms the medieval base.

the The explosion between Elon Musk and Donald Trump Drag all over the world. It should be the case for those in the Silicon Valley whose support behind the president believed that it would reduce the federal government. With the departure of Musk, any hope for a disciplined approach to the American government and the budget also goes. Musk right. Trump’s budget is an abomination.

I feel more than a smear of sympathy for musk. Unlike others, I do not think he threw himself in this battle for personal gains or his companies ’deals. He, like many, was written with a democratic party that lost its policies, and the bad California administration, whose leader, Joe Biden, allowed Vanity to overcome virtue. Unfortunately, the personality of the man who threw with him was hurt.

Musk knows what it takes to manage a sprawling empire with minimal waste. Despite his extracurricular activities, pronunciation and spleen bangs, he is the most accomplished business creator in his generation. On its own, the World Auto Auto Electrical Path and with Spacex (and its descendants, Starlink) paved a NASA in the shadow, while also promising to change the way we communicate.

But the government is not a company and the failure of musk – despite its authenticity in its evaluation of the excessive federal bureaucracy, the suffocating organizational climate and the unstable situation of the American public budget – in understanding that Trump was more interested in the daily news cycle of reform. Musk is the revolutionary, the King.

Musk also reduced the way the cabinet and consultants in Trump, and all the goals at its intersection were designed to fighter. It was strangers. They were the quagmire passengers.

In comparison, Trump has no acumen or attention of musk work. Since the opening, he managed the government just as he was running his own work, raising the debt mountains and betraying employees, while escalating safely.

While Musk launched an ideal attack on the government, Trump has worked with high mental duties such as the Kennedy Center, in an attempt to dismiss the head of the National Photography Exhibition, rename the military bases and ships, the government library cavity, plan for the issue of his birthday, and most importantly, to achieve himself a plane suitable for ignition.

What is the result of this meeting for the company’s builder and the Middle Ages king? It is the opposite of what I promised: an American budget that has the levels of debt that will rise and crush the interest payments that make the country vulnerable to its largest creditors – Japan and China.

Unfortunately, the minimum discounts made by Dog – such as external aid and America’s voice, have only weakened us all over the world. At home, thanks to Trump’s definitions, no work in America can plan until after lunch.

Then there are courses of Sharpie decrees that, which left without deterrent, will enhance China and weaken the silicon Valley – contempt for scientific rigor, discounts in financing research and development, canceling university contracts, clamps on visas for the brightest students abroad. These were the pillars of Musk’s huge successes and promoted to the level of the future of America.

While Musk left Washington with his reputation distorted and his work was affected, the President’s family signed deals on new hotels and golf courses around the world. Membership fees in Mar-A-Lago, his Floridian, link last year. He milks his supporters with the controversial Mimokin, which was launched days before its inauguration.

One word of advice for those in the Silicon Valley who followed the progress of musk and stood with Trump. Leave. Do not deceive yourself that you are making Crypto part of global financing, which reduces the organization of artificial intelligence, or helps startups or protect the interests of Silicon Valley. You don’t have an effect. You are just a cannon feed.