You didn't mention it explicitly, but the way Musk and DOGE are approaching cutting down on government spending and the "bureaucracy" is problematic due to the idea of treating it as a business rather than a state. (sure in some ways a government is similar to a business, both can become overly sclerotic, beureacratic and wasteful, but the differences are very important to get right.)
Indeed. Here I tried to focus on the international relations aspect of the error. But my post is inspired by an old Krugman article that goes into the point you make: https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company
You didn't mention it explicitly, but the way Musk and DOGE are approaching cutting down on government spending and the "bureaucracy" is problematic due to the idea of treating it as a business rather than a state. (sure in some ways a government is similar to a business, both can become overly sclerotic, beureacratic and wasteful, but the differences are very important to get right.)
Indeed. Here I tried to focus on the international relations aspect of the error. But my post is inspired by an old Krugman article that goes into the point you make: https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company
r/be reference in the big 2025