Elon Musk

And so we'd like to, well, we just need enough time to build the AI and robots to not go bankrupt before then.

And very hard to cut things that are obvious waste and fraud, like ridiculous waste and fraud.

What I discovered is that it's extremely difficult even to cut very obvious waste and fraud from the government.

Because the government tends to operate on who's complaining.

And if you cut off payments to fraudsters, they immediately come up with the most sympathetic sounding reasons to continue the payment.

They don't say, please keep the fraud going.

They say, they're like, you're killing baby pandas.

And we're like, meanwhile, there's no baby pandas are dying.

They're just making it up.

The forces are capable of coming up with extremely compelling, sort of heart-wrenching stories that are false, but nonetheless sound sympathetic.

And that's what happened.

And so it's like, perhaps I should have known better.

But I thought, wait, let's try to cut some amount of waste and poor from the government.

Maybe there shouldn't be 20 million people marked as alive in Social Security who are definitely dead.

And over the age of 115.

The oldest American is 114.

So it's safe to say if somebody is 115 and marked as alive in the social security database, there's either a typo.

Somebody should call them and say, we seem to have your birthday wrong, or we need to mark you as dead.

Very intimidating call to get.

Well, it seems like a reasonable thing.