Elon Musk: Moving Workers From Government to Private Sector Boosts the Real Economy

Elon Musk: Moving people from the government to the private sector fundamentally improves the economy.

“Reducing the size of government is very important because you need to move people from low-to-negative-productivity roles in the government sector to high-productivity roles in the private sector.

This is what actually results at a fundamental level in economic improvement. This increases the standard of living.

Sometimes people get caught up, and they think money is real, but money's not real. Output of goods and services is real. Money is simply a representation of that.”

WELT Economic Summit, January 28, 2025