What followed was a blunt diagnosis of a system that seems designed not to solve problems, but to survive them.
“It’s sort of the, frankly, largely uncaring nature of bureaucracy,” Musk explained.
Then he turned to Milton Friedman, quoting a line that had clearly stayed with him.
“As the great Milton Friedman said: ‘Money is spent most poorly when it is someone else’s money being spent on people you don’t know.’”
That, he said, is how federal spending works.