Elon Musk: “People cash out these nonprofits, they become very wealthy…”

“Basically the government funded NGOs are a way to do things that would be illegal if there were the government, but are somehow made legal if it's sent to a so called nonprofit. But these nonprofits are then used to. People cash out these nonprofits, they become very wealthy through nonprofits. They pay themselves enormous sums through these nonprofits. It's so insane that that's been going on for so long. It's a gigantic scam. Like one of the biggest, maybe the biggest scam ever.” (17:44–17:50)

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