"Build sunset clauses into rules to prevent stagnation Musk observed that in long-lived societies, rules and regulations accumulate indefinitely because 'they're immortal — humans die but the laws don't.' Without a removal function, the result is 'code accumulation but no code removal,' turning governance into 'archaic bloatware.' His concrete proposal: make laws easier to remove than to add — for example, requiring 60% to pass a law but only 40% to repeal it — and give every law a sunset date requiring active re-ratification to survive. This principle applies equally to organizational policy, software codebases, and personal habits: anything that can only be added and never removed will eventually paralyze the system it was meant to serve. Source: Elon Musk, Lex Fridman Podcast, Elon Musk"