This still seems like a low probability future, but the most exciting thing to me about Elon Twitter™ is that it's the most prominent institution in recent history to be de-bloated — if there's any sort of domino effect into other organizations, governments, etc., it's going to be quite the win for humanity.

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I'm much more excited about this happening to e.g. state / federal governments than I am to other companies.

Spot on. Private Equity raiders in the 1980s weren't known for improving their companies — but could extract value effectively.

It'll be interesting to see if tech can go a different way. Though, n=1, Marissa Mayer couldn't do it for Yahoo.