Bezos And Musk Agree: Privatize Federal Agencies

The Washington Post reports:

The relationship between billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and billionaire Tesla and SpaceX owner Elon Musk is warming up, a Friday morning exchange on Musk’s social media app X suggested. Two days after the tech titans dined together with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Bezos broadcast his agreement with Musk’s opinion that it was necessary to cut regulation and government payrolls.

“Shifting people from the government sector, which is low productivity, to the private sector, which is high productivity, results in greatly increased prosperity,” tweeted Musk Friday morning. “Deregulation helps tremendously too.” A few hours later Bezos replied, “Both of these are correct and the first is widely under appreciated.” Bezos also owns The Washington Post. It was only a month ago that Bezos accused Musk of spreading false information about him on X.

Read the full article. As you can see below and as he so often does, Musk is amplifying a claim by one of X’s most notorious fake news accounts, a Dubai-based crypto bro with over one million followers whose former partners allege that he has ripped them off. He’s also been accused of buying engagement on X.

Both of these are correct and the first is widely under appreciated.

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 20, 2024