Parr: Musk lacks grace and maturity when slashing federal jobs
Sam Parr · What’s truly going on inside DOGE? · Feb 17, 2025 · at 27:00
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss Elon Musk's leadership of DOGE and his public persona while initiating cuts to the federal workforce.
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“And for Elon, I'm like, do what you gotta do, but can you not be so smug about it and like have some like fucking grace when you're like doing some of these things, even if those things are good, and I agree with them, I just wish that like the maturity level would go up because at the end of the day, it's cool for like these tech guys to say like, cut them, let's make the government smaller, whatever. But it's, at the end of the day, it is real people's lives”
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