https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891350795452654076
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security π€£π€£ pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z
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doesn't that tweet say there are more people getting social security than there are total citizens in the US?
it can't actually mean that.
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No it means the database classified those people as alive. Not whether they are receiving benefits.
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But an excel screenshot posted on a social media platform told me to be angry
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You actually should be. This is abhorrent even if there is no fraud.
Unless Elon fricked something up and is wrong, which he could have
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He's setting himself up for a lot of issues. Typically an audit gathers data, analyzes it, then makes a full report, followed by actions based on the report.
Elon just randomly fired people just in case there was fraud, realized he was wrong, had to call them back.
Now he's airing SS data before it's been investigated and analyzed and verified. He has to be right or else he's going to look like an r-slur at best and get sued at worst.
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sure he did
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It made the news
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Oh you sweet summer child
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You don't think anyone got fired or called back?
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I don't believe the legacy media
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What about the inside employees who leaked it before the press got a hold of it
Why do people clap for WikiLeaks but deny these government leaks
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Oh right I forgot where I was
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so it's a complete nonissue then because none of these people are actually getting anything they just have wrong data on a computer?
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No, anyone above the age of 62 could theoretically be taking benefits as they are eligible so long as they are alive.
It's painfully lazy databasing even if there is no fraud.
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Why does it matter if we skew the life range statist8cs chud?
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Nah eligible people
Including millions of people older than the oldest living American
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so it's not that people are getting anything at all it's just that they are eligible on a computer screen?
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Apparently pulling the numbers for who's receiving and who's received isn't as straightforward as just pulling what the SSA has as living people by age
I suspect we'll get the actual too-old-to-exist fraud breakdown within a week and then an overall fraud report within a few months
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it's gonna come back with less than 5 too old to exist people getting anything make a betting thread so i can get DC rich
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Separate the forest from the trees by ignoring benefit recipients. 1 in 5 social security numbers are fake. That's probably a decent estimation of how many illegal aliens are stealing work from citizens in broad daylight. That doesn't even count under the table cash jobs.
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