Trump's New Administration Has a Pattern: Business Experience Over Career Bureaucrats On E207, the besties discussed the advantages of @realDonaldTrump filling his administration with sharp business minds like @JDVance, @elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, @howardlutnick, Scott Bessent, Linda McMahon, @DougBurgum, @DavidSacks, and many others. @chamath breaks it down: "I think this is the first time that I can remember where such an enormous number of business people have been motivated to come and work inside of the administration." " I think that @TheDemocrats would never have assembled a group of people like this, even though the Democratic Party has a version of this chart that they could have made." " The problem is that they believe it's deeply unfashionable to get strong, competent business people to take a pause in their business career and come work in government. And you almost look down on people that are successful." " Whereas the Republican alternative here, if it creates a movement, so to speak, so that subsequent presidents tap folks on the shoulder, I think we'll be much better off." " And the reason is pretty simple." "I think that the United States economy is too complicated to be managed by theoreticians, by folks with random PhDs and absolutely no working experience in the real world." " And when you bring those people in to oversee those PhDs, I think you probably get better outcomes." " So I hope this becomes a standard which is, ask these very talented, clearly demonstrated, successful people with judgment, to hit the pause for a year, or three, or five, whatever it is, step into government, help the country, and then go back."