Doge wants to replace our institutions with a tech utopia. It won’t work | Mike Pepi
The article discusses the Silicon Valley's vision of a tech-driven utopia without traditional institutions, as exemplified by the "Doge" project. It suggests that Elon Musk's involvement in Doge, which claimed $190 billion in savings, was more of a showpiece than a genuine policy proposal. The article argues that what works for a startup does not necessarily work for a democracy, and that the Doge experiment reveals a broader conflict between digital utopians and the institutional infrastructures that are critical to the functioning of democracies. The article concludes that the Doge project's approach, which aims at the effective dissolution of institutions like the USAID, is not a viable solution for real-world governance.
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