Elon is what you get when you give the person who truly believes they are the smartest person in any room they walk into too much money.<p>The money is used to validate the idea. It's propped up by people who think they are the same as him, and any person who has the integrity to tell him his ideas are wrong is envious of his money and prestige.<p>Take that person, and give them the keys to the kingdom. He's used to thinking, "I am the boss, what I say goes" and snapping his fingers while his horde of sycophants and wagies (no matter how well paid, it's a valid term) rush to do his bidding lest they incur his ire and lose everything.<p>He says, "fix a system that has been undergoing continuous improvement for 70 years in a couple of months" and they break laws, violate the trust of Americans, and destroy decades of hard work from passionate and talented people in order to achieve his will and come up short.<p>They can't do it.<p>The system is too large.<p>There are so many edge cases, almost one for every human in the system.<p>But Daddy Musk will be sad if they fail, so the only option left is to completely destroy the system and try to rebuild it from the wreckage.<p>They fail.<p>Now thousands of people will suffer and quite possibly some will die while they point fingers.<p>Government isn't easy.<p>It's not convoluted because of power hungry Illuminati, it is convoluted because it is assembled from a core of a good idea and enough duct tape, paper clips, and spray foam to lock the heavens and the earth into a single nearly homogeneous manageable ball of goop.<p>No one can make Elon understand anything anymore.<p>And the one person with the power to stop him is a person who is deserving of every negative epithet I can think of. I wouldn't expect a failed baby-brained billionaire convict president or his man-child toadies to understand that.