Elon Musk: “Some people who are not real people, like, they're literally…”

“But what we are trying to get to the bottom of is we think there are a number of people under government payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can't respond. And Some people who are not real people, like, they're literally fictional individuals that are collecting paychecks. Well, somebody's collecting paychecks on a fictional individual. So we're literally to figure out, are these people real, are they alive, and can they write an email?” (08:35–08:40)

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