Elon Musk: “The government is run by computers. So you've got…”

“And, and what you saw immediately is to understand what's really going on, get to the payment systems, get to the computers? Yeah. Like. Like, why is getting to the computer so critical to understanding what's actually happening? Well, The government is run by computers. So you've got essentially several hundred computers that effectively run the government. And if you want to know. Did you know that, Ben? No. Yeah. So when somebody like, even when the President issues an executive order, that's got to go through a whole bunch of people until ultimately it is implemented at a computer somewhere.” (07:57–08:06)

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