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ELON: CIVILIZATIONS FREEZE WHEN RULES NEVER GET DELETED Legislative gridlock paralyze innovation. Using an analogy from Gulliver’s Travels, Elon argued that the U.S. has become a giant pinned to the ground and not by one massive chain, but by "a million little strings" of regulations that make even the... simplest progress illegal. Thankfully for the U.S., DOGE isn't just an advisory body; it’s the "garbage collection" function required to prevent the "hardening of the arteries" of America “There’s a thing that happens over time with any civilization. Laws and regulations just accumulate. If there isn’t some forcing function to clean them up, eventually everything becomes illegal. It’s like hardening of the arteries, or being tied down by a million little strings. No single string is the problem. It’s all of them together. There has to be a kind of garbage collection for laws and regulations. Otherwise you just keep adding rules until nothing can move. That’s why big projects stop happening. It’s not that people forgot how to build. It’s that it becomes illegal six ways from Sunday to do anything.” Source: Tesla Owners Silicon Valleyshow more

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