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Philanthropy can never operate at the scale of government, no matter how well-funded it becomes.
Their wordsEven with the influx of funding that may come with the AI companies' IPOs, philanthropy can never act at the scale of government.
Their wordswe've both come to believe that when transformation fails repeatedly, it's time for something different, and one of the tools that leaders need to add to their tool belts (and probably use a lot more frequently than they do today), is starting fresh, creating new entities (agencies and departments, for example) and either endowing them with new authorities or transferring authorities from legacy institutions to the new ones.
Their wordsThere is suddenly political will and leadership on these issues, which makes change now possible, but the administrative state is not going to reform itself.