Elon Musk

So you have to say something.

We're not saying that what is said, like you can say anything.

Your cat could run across the keyboard.

You could go QWERTY ASDF.

But you have to say something above nothing because what we found was that there were tens of billions, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars that were zombie payments.

So like somebody had approved a payment.

Somebody in the government approved a payment and some recurring payment.

And they retired or died or changed jobs and no one turned the money off.

So the money would just keep going out.

And it's a pretty rare- And go where?

To a company or an individual.

And it's a pretty rare company or individual who will complain that they're getting money that they should not get.

And a bunch of the money was just going to the – were transfer payments to the states.

Yeah, just automatic payments.

No accounting for them at all.

Imagine like there's an automatic debit of your credit card and you never look at the statement.

Right.

So it's just money going out.

That's why I call them zombie payments.

There might have been legitimate at one point.