Elon Musk
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That's why the bank always asks for your social security.
Any financial institution will ask for your social security number.
What I'm saying is that like if you create β like I β
Like, to be pragmatic and realistic, you actually can't manage to zero fraud.
You can manage to low fraud number, but not to zero fraud.
If you manage to zero fraud, you're going to push so many people over the edge who are receiving fraudulent payments that the number of inbound homicidal maniacs will be really hard to overcome.
So I'm actually taking, I think, quite a reasonable position, which is that we should simply reduce the amount of fraud, which I think is...
not an extremist position.
And we should aspire to have less fraud over time.
Not that we should be ultra draconian and eliminate every last scrap of fraud, which I guess would be nice to have, but we don't even need to go that extreme.
I'm saying we should just stop the blatant, large-scale, super obvious fraud.
I think that's a reasonable position.
Well, I guess this was β I should have anticipated this, but β
While most of the fraudulent government payments, especially to the NGOs, go to the Democrats, most of it, like, I don't know, for argument's sake, let's say 80%, maybe 90%, 10% to 20% of it does go to Republicans.
And so when we'd turn off funding to a fraudulent NGO, we'd get complaints from whatever, the 10% of Republicans who were receiving the money.
And they would very loudly complain.