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Elon Musk: Legislators will legislate and regulators will regulate until everything's illegal. “This is a natural consequence of an extended period of prosperity, it's very important to appreciate this. This has happened throughout history. When you have an extended period of prosperity with no existential war, there's no cleansing... show more

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Elon Musk: Every year, regulators create more regulations and lawmakers create more laws. You really need a cleansing process. “The laws and regulations that are put in place get larger every year. So it stands to reason that if you have regulators, regulators are going to add more regulations every year. Lawmakers will add more laws every year. The cleansing process, normally, for getting rid of nonsensical laws and regulations is war. Now, obviously, we'd prefer to not have war drive the reformation of government. So, in the absence of war, you have to have something like what we have formed here in the US, a Department of Government Efficiency, in order to get rid of laws and regulations.” WELT Economic Summit, January 28, 2025

Elon Musk: Every year, regulators create more regulations and lawmakers create more laws. You really need a cleansing process. “The laws and regulations that are put in place get larger every year. So it stands to reason that if you have regulators, regulators are going to add more regulations every year. Lawmakers will add more laws every year. The cleansing process, normally, for getting rid of nonsensical laws and regulations is war. Now, obviously, we'd prefer to not have war drive the reformation of government. So, in the absence of war, you have to have something like what we have formed here in the US, a Department of Government Efficiency, in order to get rid of laws and regulations.” WELT Economic Summit, January 28, 2025

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Elon Musk: Almost like entropy, the hand of government gets heavier every year. “The natural tendency over time, almost like entropy, is that the hand of government gets heavier every year. The laws and regulations accumulate every year. And these laws and regulations are immortal. So, you have to really take an active role in reducing the number of laws and regulations. Otherwise, as more and more laws and regulations are passed, eventually everything becomes illegal.” Interview with Jordan Peterson, July 22, 2024

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“Rules and regulations will accumulate until everything is illegal. That’s why it’s essential we have a conscious effort to reduce laws and regulations or no one will be allowed to do anything.” — Elon Musk

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🚨 ELON MUSK: "One of the things that's happened is that you have a steady increase in the amount of bureaucracy. The size of government grows, the laws and regulations that are put in place get larger every year. The cleansing process normally for getting rid of nonsensical laws and regulations, is war. Now, obviously we prefer to not have war, so you have to have something like what we have formed here in the US, a Department of Government Efficiency. These things are all very hard, and I want to be clear like we may indeed fail in this objective. That's why I described it as an extremely difficult battle. This has never succeeded before. So prior attempts to reduce the size of bureaucracy, to make out more efficient, have generally failed."

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