Perhaps the highest and best use of Elon Musk’s time and effort is not trying to reform the government. More entrepreneurship might help the world even more.

Elon believes he is above everyone else. He used to think he worked on the most important problems. When I met him, he did not presume to be a technical person — he would be the first to say that he lacked the expertise to understand certain data. That happened later. Now, he acts as if he has all the solutions.

In the past, the EU has not hesitated to try to apply European law to tech companies. Over the past decade, for example, Google has faced three fines totaling more than $8 billion for breaking antitrust law (though one of these fines was overturned by the EU’s General Court in 2024).

Bill Gates has hit out at fellow billionaire Elon Musk and denounced his political activities as “insane s***.” The Microsoft CEO and philanthropist, who went to Mar-a-Lago last month for a three-hour dinner with President Donald Trump,

Elon Musk, the genius billionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX, and now the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E), has vowed to cut wasteful spending in Washington under his “best friend” President Donald Trump’s administration.