Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'
by nemo44x on Sunday February 09, 2025 @02:42PM
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It’s more like Trump is the chairman of the board of directors representing shareholders interest (voters, loyalists, contributors) and Musk is the CEO.
Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'
by wrs on Sunday February 09, 2025 @03:31PM
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The United States isn’t supposed to have a “CEO” in the sense that a corporation does. For countries, that job description is called a “monarch”, and the Constitution is specifically designed to make sure we don’t have one.
Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'
by lotsofpulp on Sunday February 09, 2025 @05:31PM
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A monarch cannot be voted out. A CEO can be voted out.
The US president presides over the executive branch of the US government.
It’s not a one to one equivalence, but commander-in-chief is pretty close to a chief executive office.
Re:Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'
by wrs on Sunday February 09, 2025 @07:26PM
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The difference in job duration isn’t the point I was making. The President is merely the head of three equal branches that are supposed to keep each other in check, and has significant limits on his/her powers. A CEO has essentially limitless powers as long as they have the job.
As one obvious example, a CEO controls the company budget. A President can merely suggest a budget to Congress.
Why would there be? The people hired Trump to be the CEO, the CEO hired Musk (personally, I think it is mostly to serve as a distraction while real personal/political goals are handled elsewhere), but regardless, any government only works when most leaders (and voters) have mostly good intentions.
It is not feasible to have a check and balance on every decision, everything would grind to a halt.