we’re watching elon musk trying to run the government like a business by being that shitty boss everyones had at one point in their life and i hope this is an evergreen example of why “running the government like a business” might be the dumbest ideological statement out there - ThreadSky

junlper.beer • 50 days ago

we’re watching elon musk trying to run the government like a business by being that shitty boss everyones had at one point in their life and i hope this is an evergreen example of why “running the government like a business” might be the dumbest ideological statement out there

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johnbalash.bsky.social•50 days ago

Sadly it’s taken it happening in real life to show why it’s flawed.

philbert94839.bsky.social•50 days ago

Musk running a business

girlfriend.bsky.social•50 days ago

Honestly running a business like a business is also generally a bad idea.

mattyjoee.bsky.social•50 days ago

Running a business that way also doesn’t work. It’s why business culture changed to being more respectful, patient, and collaborative.

poopscoop.bsky.social•50 days ago

“Running government like a business” means dictatorship. Capitalist businesses are internally dictatorships.

tsumihorob0shi.bsky.social•49 days ago

thank u spongeswap spongebob. i look forward to your role in the revolution

shadon.bsky.social•50 days ago

Even if it were true why would you vote for a guy who bankrupted several of his own companies is a migraine inducing question I still ask myself occasionally

queenragdoll.bsky.social•50 days ago

“bUt wE’Re fAmILy”

nemescontent.bsky.social•50 days ago

He wasn't even that good at running businesses!

technicallyowen.bsky.social•50 days ago

He was good at gifting for VC funding all of his contributions have cost his companies money

nylerodgers.bsky.social•50 days ago

The fundamental issue with "running the government like a business" is that businesses have a clearly defined single metric to optimize: long term profit, but the government has a bunch of different poorly defined competing goals

cocci852.bsky.social•50 days ago

Long term profit would be an improvement for most companies. They go for short term profit.

korl.is•50 days ago

nah, people will just turn around and say "no, he was a bad boss, you gotta run it like a good boss"... assuming they even acknowledge he's terrible at business, which many do not

comradebearrington.bsky.social•50 days ago

willing to bet, like all corporate mistakes, the lesson will be "we didn't do it hard enough, it'll totally work if we double down"

kanabf.bsky.social•50 days ago

"Trust me there's still cathedral in the walls"

comradebearrington.bsky.social•50 days ago

I don't think I get that reference but I support the sentiment

iwillrobyou.bsky.social•50 days ago

My address isn’t profitable to be delivered to so I can’t get my monthly medicine but atleast we don’t have socialism!!

anyafrau.bsky.social•50 days ago

to quote perennial philiospher Abraham Lincoln of erb fame "this is a country, not a company you can play like monopoly"

malatesting.bsky.social•50 days ago

frankly the evidence clearly says that even running a *business* like a business is bad for business

fajac.bsky.social•50 days ago

He's not trying to run anything, though. He's just gutting the parts of the federal government that either are inconvenient to him and his businesses or that he doesn't understand and giving bullshit excuses for why he's doing it and idiots are lapping it up.

lexys.wtf•50 days ago

Running the government like venture capitalist doing leveraged buyouts. What could go wrong?

technicallyowen.bsky.social•50 days ago

Remember leverage buy outs are just legal mafia bust outs and it's been the core of Conservative economics since the late 70s not surprisingly organized crime was highly active in Wall Street for decades before and after this

murb93.bsky.social•50 days ago

His "email me five things" ploy got tried when I worked at Kroger. It was the only time we even came close to threatening to strike. That manager got fired and every employee got a $10 gift card.

plarpedbees.bsky.social•50 days ago

on the bright side. once we perish in the camps they’ll never forget for about 80 years

greggateley.bsky.social•50 days ago

No business on Earth has to do admin for 330 million fucking people! And then filter that through 50 smaller organizations that try to pick and choose which rules they want to follow and the tug of war that results in each case.

altrocks.bsky.social•49 days ago

Given that Reagan is the one most associated with that kind of thinking, it's not surprising that it's so horrible. We're still living in his political shadow 30 years after he was put in the ground.

youtackything.bsky.social•50 days ago

Most businesses are, in fact, badly run!

gael-ico.bsky.social•50 days ago

That withouth even bringing up the whole ''businesses are run for profit, not for humanity. And are run as dictatorships or juntas'' deal, and how ussualy those proposals also revolve around corporatocratic cults, in turn leading to fascist governments if succesfull.

dantedominion.bsky.social•50 days ago

They'll realize that they'll have to business even harder to fix the original business plan for running the government like a business.

changa.gay•50 days ago

When I hear people talking about government as a business because the concept that businesses are efficient makes me wonder if anybody has ever worked at a company people. The amount of bullshit and stupid at companies that still managed to shamble on is impressive.

patlalaver01.bsky.social•50 days ago

Ellen is running the government like a business and the point of a business is to make a profit and Ellen is running our government to make a profit for his firms and that is it. He will have the contract for SpaceX to run the FAA, he will have his criminals take our identity

rockthekoopa.bsky.social•50 days ago

i don't think most people will learn, they will sooner blame him for being southafrican than abandon reagan

lydzrose.bsky.social•50 days ago

Or they’ll just continue blaming marginalized communities.

junlper.beer•50 days ago

sadly i think you’re right overall. they won’t connect that this is that in action. hopefully it’ll stick though

rockthekoopa.bsky.social•50 days ago

i hope so too. Maybe if it gets bad enough

oritheotter.bsky.social•50 days ago

I did had a shitty boss that was always on drugs and never paid me overtime

lynniereads.bsky.social•50 days ago

I would say he’s like Michael Scott, but I fear Michael was a better boss

jwalker.bsky.social•50 days ago

As a satire on that idea, I once wrote an alternate history story in which Walt Disney was elected President in 1952 and all hell broke loose because he had no idea what he was doing. It was well-received enough for me to muse over sequel ideas for years, then reality overtook fiction.

megamaster1021.bsky.social•50 days ago

he can't even run a business either all he does is buy shit and take credit

stevenmoore722.bsky.social•50 days ago

The government is not a business and racism and cronyism aren't efficiency. President Musk and his felon coffee boy have run nothing but frauds for the past decade. Using illegally obtained government info on your competition is a crime. This whole administration is a crime spree.

lacealot.bsky.social•50 days ago

It will be, for this generation. It is our lack of diligence and recent history that this shit keeps happening.

*in the future*
“Oh the holocaust was 200 years ago. That could never happen again in our civilized society, where we have virtue signaled against fascism”

verdasinc.bsky.social•50 days ago

the difficulty of running the U.S. government like a business is that most American businesses operate with the reassurance that the U.S. government will bail them out when needed, the fun part is finding out where the buck stops

sophygurl.bsky.social•50 days ago

He's Also really bad at running businesses, so there's that too.

a2l112.bsky.social•50 days ago

I remember half joking how stupid of an idea it was to try and make the government turn a profit because I thought they'd NEVER actually try and do it, and look what they've done...

ehovland.bsky.social•50 days ago

nocab.lol•50 days ago

pulling out a ronald reagan quote is crazy work icl

ehovland.bsky.social•50 days ago

Thanks. Fighting in line formation is often not the most effective. Maybe.

morrisnormal.bsky.social•50 days ago

When has the police or military ever turned a profit?

mayhem1994.bsky.social•50 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/mayhem1994.bsky.social/post/3lizlcbl2gs2d

pmgodin.bsky.social•50 days ago

Not only this, but I had lots of bad boss, none was as shitty as Elon.

ziggybull.bsky.social•50 days ago

Why would I want anything run like a business? Business gave us new Coke and batteries you can't replace yourself.

winterpancake.bsky.social•50 days ago

And plastic in the brain

yellowdogposts.bsky.social•50 days ago

New Coke had a positive initial reception, but American southerners rallied hard against it because they thought it was infringing on their heritage. They care about Coca-Cola as much as they cared about keeping slavery.

beebop.bsky.social•50 days ago

really wish dems would counter “run the govt like a business” rhetoric with “run the govt like a union” rhetoric, rather than trying to out-businessman the republicans. i feel like that’s a real layup when the biggest gains the trump era GOP has been making are with blue collar workers

stormwolf1977.bsky.social•50 days ago

Being a government employee I can say that there are indeed some facets that can be run like a business. But…. There are many more that can’t. One has to understand that vital intricacy and balance. In Muskies case he can’t even run a true business effectively, so there’s that fail to deal with.

ashleylynch.bsky.social•50 days ago

It was supposed to be evergreen the last time they elected "a businessman to run the country like a government"

singingpigs.online•50 days ago

who has ever worked at *literally any business* and thought “I wish the president was more like my manager”

lexys.wtf•50 days ago

I've had fast food place managers that would be better suited than this nonsense and my current manager would be a damned welcome change in general.

But yeah generally speaking that point is very accurate.

kieslowskifan1.bsky.social•50 days ago

One of the first adult conversations I had with my Dad went like this:

Dad: how's the job going?

Me: my boss is an idiot.

Dad: yeah, mine is too.

feistyfeminist.bsky.social•50 days ago

My dad, who retired from the public school system, thinks the govt should be run like a business. I have a BS and MS from a *business school and work for a corporation and DISAGREE. But its rude that I think my opinion matters more.

*I don't have an MBA. If you say I have an MBA that is libel!

fopsthing.bsky.social•50 days ago

In 2016 I was sitting in the car with my soon-to-be MAGA aunt and uncle who said they wanted Trump to "run the country like a business". Prior to this my aunt had invited me to her friend's MLM makeup sales pitch "party". In the 90s, my uncle had sold out to some other MLM that went under fast

greymothvt.bsky.social•50 days ago

who would've thought the repeatedly stupid ideas that are threatening to tank corporate america constantly don't work when applied to the government, i'm so astounded this could possibly happen

question is, who's the fucking board members in this scenario

damomurtagh.bsky.social•50 days ago

So when the US Government is ladden with too much risk and is on the verge of collapse, who's going to respond to their "Too big to fail" pleas?

e6n.lol•50 days ago

Move fast and break things as applied to all of human existence. Probably because of ketamine.

the-thirstiest-mawile.com•50 days ago

Running it like a UnitedHealthcare CEO.

dollypilled.bsky.social•50 days ago

My previous boss tried this, even down to the “firing everyone on his first day and making them interview for their jobs back” thing. Two words: severe turnover. Along with horrible pay and morale.

vivicorpceo.bsky.social•50 days ago

It's the kind of shit I believed when I was like 13. Everyone is kind of a dumbass at 13 though so...

zeitwolverine.mustelid.party•50 days ago

The point of running a government absolutely should be anything but trying to turn a profit.

crabby-phatty.bsky.social•50 days ago

The people who claim government should be run like a business have never ever worked for any of the businesses they have in mind, they only shop there or complain there and have zero insight into how such businesses are actually run in an extremely corrupt and destructive way.

ironprophet.bsky.social•50 days ago

*audible bong rip*
I'd like to run the government like GameStop.

theprince.tv•50 days ago

I roll my eyes every time I hear that dumb line.

It's the fucking government- not a business. It doesn't exist to make anyone rich

winterpancake.bsky.social•50 days ago

Well you'd hope so at least

bummmer.itch.io•50 days ago

"the post office isn't profitable we should gut it" maybe we should throw rocks at you

spaceshipgary.bsky.social•50 days ago

It’s right up there with “you’ll get more conservative as you get older and more mature”

delboylindo.bsky.social•50 days ago

I’m a married homeowning father turning 40 this year and I define my politics now as socialist-Galleanist

m0xd.bsky.social•50 days ago

That's 10000% it - it's not enough that he's consistently unlikable whenever he says or does anything, EVERYONE has had a boss like the way he's acting, and we've all HATED that guy. I can't believe anyone still worships this dbag at this point on that alone

patomicbomb.bsky.social•50 days ago

It is really funny dumb guy opinion especially from people who wage a personal war with businesses like Starbucks

awryary.bsky.social•50 days ago

Running government like a business (leveraging my unlimited access to cheap capital to compete at a loss in every industry, forcing competitors to sell to me for pennies on the dollar, ultimately returning maximum value to all citizens)

thesporkmaster.bsky.social•50 days ago

The government isn't supposed to make money, only keep the economy balanced and fair and negotiate forigen threats. The fact that we started letting the government control so much of our lives is where we went wrong and most of the people alive today aren't even the ones that made it that way.

winterpancake.bsky.social•50 days ago

Businesses shouldn't even be run like businesses if at all. I hope people can see this too

winterpancake.bsky.social•50 days ago

I invented the ideal economic system: slowly dying preventable death while coddling idiot man babies who own everything!

winterpancake.bsky.social•50 days ago

"Isn't this just feudalism" no you fool you have less time off

dustinj.bsky.social•50 days ago

Why does no one wish to return to the pre colonial times of laziness and plenty?

yellowdogposts.bsky.social•50 days ago

I keep remembering how SpaceX engineers basically have to get Musk off their workplace because they work better that way

reaperren.bsky.social•50 days ago

I only hear that phrase when the person in charge is a failed businessman when you actually look at their business ventures.

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