It works as long as you have investors shoving millions or billions into your behind so you can fix the fuckups

then they are in luck, they have the worlds largest investor behind them (US, Not Musk)

The U.S. government is a service with 330 million people who are both users and legal stakeholders, mandated to provide and maintain a variety of services and databases that predate the Internet and personal computing by several decades, and run by a publicly elected executive who is term limited to 8 years. Which Silicon Valley entity do you think comes close to the scope and continuity of service of the U.S. government?

Oligarchs don't want "government by the people, for the people". They want to own the government and rent it back to the people for massive profits.

This is a thing someone says if they think Silicon Valley was built in 2005. Semiconductor development built Silicon Valley, and it was not by my relatively limited understanding a "move fast and break things" process.

with a not-unsubstantial amount of federal (and CA state) money...

Doesn't work in what sense though?

It works? Are you sure?

Sure, it works great. And if the federal government fails, just call your favorite VC buddies and start a new federal government. Maybe one without one of those pesky constitutions. Why has nobody thought of this?

The VCs trying to build a new federal government is ironically what we're seeing here.

err, Silicon Valley hates to admit it but the Federal government built Silicon Valley...and Tesla.

Yeah. This is the worst example of a lack of self awareness.

and accepting of their particular safety records I'm sure.

come back and argue after you take your Tesla down the Dragon's Tail without touching the steering wheel

Move fast and break things started in 2005 which was exactly when Silicon Valley stopped producing companies that could make a profit and instead relied on endless fire hoses of investor cash