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I don't even know how to respectfully disagree with opinions so far from reality
A lot of people have this misconception that rich people are "good with money". They're good at taking money from other people.
Because they are sociopaths.
He is legit a complete fuckfing moron. You want 1 reason, and 1 reason only? He just got access to medicare and medicaid data, HIPAA is not something you fuck with, the fines alone could literally bankrupt musk at his all time richest point, which I think is now, the largest HIPAA breach I could quickly find was 113 thousand people. Cost 5.5 million in fines alone, and was sent to the DOJ for possible criminal charges... How many peoples information is in Medicare and Medicaid? All of them? Oh dear, musk can't afford what he is doing...
You are assuming he will face any consequences. He is completely shielded by Trump and has been granted authority to do whatever he wants. And even if he is breaking the law - the law literally means nothing if it is not enforced. The US government has been effectively coup'd from within and cannot and will not regulate or stop itself.
I don't think you realize how rich musk is.
If you scaled the numbers above to the whole US population, the fine would be something around $17 Billion.
Musk's net worth is over 20x that!
Extreme inequality causes extreme instability
Wait you think the white rich guy is facing consequences? That's wild.
I love your optimism here but what makes you so confident the DOJ are going to be able to do anything? I sadly think we're way past the point of expecting normal laws to apply to these assholes
Musk is pretty normal for billionaires. Completely detached from reality, drunk on power and his own ego, convinced his every idea is divine inspiration, except the god is him.
This is the way. Elon Musk loves to lie about his IQ and pretend he’s smarter than he is. Trump’s favorite insult is ‘low IQ’. Find something that digs into their skin and make them throw a tantrum.
IQ measures whether you need more education for schooling it does not test your overall ability to think. You can have a high IQ and do a lot of stupid shit.
That’s true! But I don’t think Trump or Elon understand that. They find it offensive.
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