So. With Elon’s closeness with Trump and he’s desire for X to be the US’S ‘Everything App’, could he force any payment of taxes, goods and services to only go through X? Is this possible with his powers? Do you think it’s possible or likely to happen? I just envisage him making it mandatory for you to use it for everything and if you don’t, you’ll have to face fines or other consequences. (I’m from the UK so I may not understand how this might pan out, I just think he’s crazy enough and cozy enough with Elmo to force it).
Banks would no sooner have him shot on fifth avenue
Elon has access to the Treasury, if banks want to receive government payouts they won’t have a choice.
But yes, the banks are separate from the federal government, they’re mostly overseen by “the fed” which is a board of governors.
If they shot him on 5th avenue, he wouldn’t control the Treasury anymore, would he?
Solid reasoning
He sure could. Did you know that USPS is technically a government-granted monopoly by way of the Private Express Statutes?
Drumpf could grant X (The everything App (Formerly Known As Twitter)) the same privileges. Maybe not directly, but ultimately it’d have the same result, if they created a service that routed payments through it, and forced citizens to use said service and then grant said service a monopoly.
It would be funny because I don’t think twitter has the server infrastruktur or the domain knowledge.
It could well be you know. Trump is not tech saaavy and elon could push for it as its his dream. The thing to watch is Larry Ellison go look up everything he owns and what he is in control of.
The same Ellison who suggested surveillance will be used to make people behave?
Thats the bunny yep. He owns a lot of media and news companies. And he is now i think contracted with government data gathering via the AI stuff a quick search will show ypu all the pies his sweatty fingers are in.
I mean he could and could try to force it, but if people were too stubborn to use it wouldn’t last long.
I’m sure he could and would. All he’d need to do is dictate that X is the only payment provider all government departments may use to improve ‘efficiency’.
Yes, that’s what I was thinking, then it’s a slippery slope to making everything have to go through it
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