Elon Musk: “When you add caring and competence, where it was absent…”

“People ask me, what's the most surprising thing that you've encountered when you go to D.C. you know, when you're in D.C. and I said, well, the most surprising thing is the scale of the expenditures and actually how easy it is to just. When you add caring and competence, where it was absent before, you can actually save billions of dollars, sometimes in an hour. It's wild. And then they scoff at it and say, oh, a few billion here, there. I mean, the way they're talking about it, you can see they don't care.” (13:26–13:38)

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