Doge wants to replace our institutions with a tech utopia. It won’t work | Mike Pepi

Silicon Valley's final dream is a world without institutions. But what works for a startup doesn't work for democracy

Elon Musk has stepped away from Doge with very little efficiency" to show for it. While it may have been more of a showpiece than real policy, this brutal and short experiment in Silicon Valley governance reveals a long-simmering battle between digital utopians and the institutional infrastructures critical to functioning democracies.

Doge's website dubiously claims $190bn in savings. The receipts show that they are less about efficiency than they are aimed at effective dissolution, a fate met by USAID, the federal agency responsible for distributing foreign assistance.