Elon Musk: “There's a lot of payments that, where someone just approved…”

“If money is sent to a person or organization from the government and you didn't really deserve it, but the government still sent it to you, is that waste or fraud? Right. So I mean There's a lot of payments that, where someone just approved the payment, but then that payment officer changed jobs or, or retired or died and the payments just keep going. It's like if you forget to pay your gym membership or something like that. Now imagine it's not the gym membership.” (30:30–30:43)

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